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Egalitarian Thug

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2. "It has always seemed strange to me...

Reply to DefenseLawyer (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 10:08 PM

Feb 2014

the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

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Happy Birthday John Steinbeck! [View all] Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 OP

Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, DefenseLawyer Feb 2014 #1

"It has always seemed strange to me... Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #2

That was a great day, 112 years ago. ananda Feb 2014 #3

It was. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #6

"Young wolves, show us your teeth." John Steinbeck Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2014 #4

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #5

There is a fantastic Google doodle today showing his novels. femmocrat Feb 2014 #7

I saw it and then made the mistake of clicking in here only to be greeted with Happy Birthday Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #10

A distant cousin of mine. hunter Feb 2014 #8

I think that would be so cool. My relatives are all murderers and thieves, albeit powerful Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #9

Tom Joad Himself. . . Stargleamer Feb 2014 #11

Reading what he wrote in the times that he wrote it, and then looking at what we have become now, Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #12

Many of his works still haunt me LostOne4Ever Feb 2014 #13

Where's that level today? Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #14

If I could only have one book, that book would be Morning Dew Feb 2014 #15

Can't argue with that. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #16

"Before I knowed it .... " etherealtruth Feb 2014 #17