13 Quotes by John Steinbeck about Inspirational
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Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
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A kind of light spread out from her.And everything changed color.And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.And there was no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid anymore.
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There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
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At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
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Ad astra per alia porci
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This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.
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Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it.
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Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
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