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We do not really feel gratefu...

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

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Youth itself is a talent, a p...

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

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The pleasure we derive from d...

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer 868 quotes

It is not so much the example...

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

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Self-esteem and self-contempt...

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

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Dissipation is a form of self...

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

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It is the awareness of unfulf...

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

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Many of the insights of the s...

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

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We all have private ails. The...

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

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We have perhaps a natural fea...

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

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It is the around-the-corner b...

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

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With some people solitariness...

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

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Compassion alone stands apart...

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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Action is at bottom a swingin...

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

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Whenever you trace the origin...

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

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Social improvement is attaine...

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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Call not that man wretched, w...

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

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Nationalist pride, like other...

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

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To spell out the obvious is o...

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

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Absolute power corrupts even ...

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

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