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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness

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