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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Eric Hoffer

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
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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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

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