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

John Steinbeck

There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter

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

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