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

John Steinbeck

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
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
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
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
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
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
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
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing

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