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

Eric Hoffer

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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
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
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 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
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
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
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself

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