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John Steinbeck

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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
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
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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

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