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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

John Steinbeck

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
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.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem

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