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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

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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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

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

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

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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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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 from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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A man by himself is in bad company.

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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.

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

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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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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

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

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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

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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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