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To change everything, simply change your attitude.

Eric Hoffer

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
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
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
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
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
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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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
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
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk

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