Quote by John Steinbeck
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of

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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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these theres time, the Bastard Time. – John Steinbeck

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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. – John Steinbeck

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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

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Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. – Marquis de Sade

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. – George Bernard Shaw

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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasnt a Christian, she would stomp you to death. – Dick Gregory

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. – Thomas Carlyle

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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. – Agnes De Mille

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