Quote by John Steinbeck
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver.

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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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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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. – John Steinbeck

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work
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

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Courage
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Time
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau

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Time

For a long time I was scared Id find out I was like my mother. – Marilyn Monroe

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Time

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell

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Time

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time. – Barack Obama

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Time

Random Quotes

I still believe in marriage. – Frank Bruno

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Marriage

Some men laugh habitually in falsetto…. We remember once to have heard a feminine laugh so painfully and regularly tuneful that it could literally have been reduced to musical notation. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889

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Laughter

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. – Werner von Braun

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Computers

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Helping