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

John Steinbeck

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
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
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World

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

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