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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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
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
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
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.
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Book Himself Talk
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
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
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
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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