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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

John Steinbeck

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Change Hide Men
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking

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