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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Eric Hoffer

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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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Adult Difference Growth
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
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
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
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
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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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present

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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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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