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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.

John Steinbeck

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time

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