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I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. ↗

— John Johnson

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You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop a good man". ↗

— John Paul Warren

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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Real MEN don't need a woman covering for him because a Real MAN IS a woman's covering! ↗

— Sanjo Jendayi

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Yes. Because they were human men. They were trying to write down the heart's truth out of the heart's driving complexity, for all the complex and troubled hearts which would beat after them. ↗

— William Faulkner "The Bear"

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Do not pray for easy lives. Prey to be stronger men. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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I would rather live short and right then long and wrong. ↗

— John Paul Warren

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