To change everything, simply change your attitude.
ERIC HOFFER
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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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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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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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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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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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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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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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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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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