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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.

Eric Hoffer

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
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
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
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
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice

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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