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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.

Eric Hoffer

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
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
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
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
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
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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Philosophy Yourself
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
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
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way

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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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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