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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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