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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer

To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
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
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
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

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