Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

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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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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

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

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

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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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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

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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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He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Eric Hoffer in True Believer or Theory of leisure class
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