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

Eric Hoffer

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
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
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
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
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

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