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Children are the keys of paradise.

Eric Hoffer

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
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
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

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