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

Eric Hoffer

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
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
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner

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