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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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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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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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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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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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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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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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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
By Eric Hoffer