John Steinbeck

Puzzles

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• Man has a ___ and it’s a ___ that makes him a man.
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• We spend our time searching for ___ and hate it when we get it.
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• The final weapon is the ___, all else is supplemental.
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• People need ___. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to John Steinbeck?

  • → Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
  • → I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
  • → There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other—by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
  • → It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to John Steinbeck.

  • → The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
  • → Sorry — If I had any advice to give, I’d take it myself.
  • → Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
  • → The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to John Steinbeck.

  • → When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
  • → He is a writer for the ages — the ages of four to eight.
  • → The customer is always right.
  • → Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to John Steinbeck. Which one?

  • → What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
  • → To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
  • → Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
  • → All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to John Steinbeck?

  • → You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
  • → No one wants advice, only corroboration.
  • → Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
  • → Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to John Steinbeck?

  • → If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
  • → We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
  • → You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
  • → No one wants advice, only corroboration.
  
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