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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

Norm MacDonald

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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Imperfection Man Ourselves Praise Seek Virtue
You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Hate Love Rival Team Yourself
A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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Crime Evil Greatness Injustice Man Practice Success Thinking World
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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Battle Courageous Defeat Failure Hero Himself Lost Man Sick
Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Form Jealous Philosophy Sweet
Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Philosophy Prejudice Reason Strong Weakness
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Communication Fools Practice Report Understand
There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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Advice Avoid Determination Distance Himself Man Opinion Pursue
I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
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Computer Enough Food Money Myself Need Right Technology Yourself
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Enjoyment Love Man Small Wind
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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Confidence Easy Man Temptation Violence
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
NORM MACDONALD

Desire Praise Yourself
It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Deep Necessary Tolerance
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Himself Praise Search
All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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Death Life Money Myself People Thinking Try
I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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Cook Intelligence Man Myself Thankful Woman

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