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

John Steinbeck

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
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
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing

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