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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Eric Hoffer

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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
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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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance

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