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" You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. "
Eric Hoffer
Need
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Never
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" When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. "
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" I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. "
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" Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. "
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" What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? "
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" 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 still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. "
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" Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. "
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" When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. "
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" 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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" Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. "
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" A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. "
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" It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. "
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Opinion
Power
" To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. "
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Call
Out
Obvious
" To the old, the new is usually bad news. "
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New
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" Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. "
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Himself
Impossible
" Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. "
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" The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. "
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Old
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" The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. "
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Who
Individual
" It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. "
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" It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. "
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" We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. "
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Ourselves
Loudest
" It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. "
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Degree
Those
" Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. "
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Nothing
Things
" A man by himself is in bad company. "
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