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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

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
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
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
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter

It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

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