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

Eric Hoffer

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
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
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

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

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