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John Steinbeck

"Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."

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"Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."

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"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, 'Come on down!' But standing at the bottom looking up, it's finally dawned on me that it's not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it's the fact that I accepted them."

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"To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed."

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"You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest."

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"Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free."

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"Reject evil. Choose the good."

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"The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it."

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"Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely."

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"Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life."

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"So, there's this hornet's nest. And there's this long stick. And then there's me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don't no matter how hard you try."

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