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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK

Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
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
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
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War

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