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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
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
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
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

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