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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.

John Steinbeck

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
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
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
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
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing

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