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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.

Eric Hoffer

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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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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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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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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