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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness

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