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

John Steinbeck

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
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Book Himself Talk
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
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection

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