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Children are the keys of paradise.

Eric Hoffer

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
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
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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 education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
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

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