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

John Steinbeck

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
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
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
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
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
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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