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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People

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