Quote by John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck

Other quotes by John Steinbeck

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. – John Steinbeck

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Pollution
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didnt have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. – Nicolas Cage

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Intelligence

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national. – Stephen Cambone

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Intelligence

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that. – John O. Brennan

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Intelligence

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. – George Bancroft

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Intelligence

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When the entertainers of the Right arent declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call the Chicago way. – Thomas Frank

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Im turning into a stricter dad. – David Duchovny

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dad

My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul. – A.C. Van Cherub, 2009

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Romantic

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. – H. L. Mencken

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Faith