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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Himself Talk
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
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
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself

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