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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

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
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
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man

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