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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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
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
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom

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