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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

John Steinbeck

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
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
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Death Sad Story Writing
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
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

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