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

Eric Hoffer

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
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 basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work

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