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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
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
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
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
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
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
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

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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