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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
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
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

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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