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

Eric Hoffer

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
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
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate 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

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

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