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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

One must Judge men Opinions
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Men still have to be governed by deception.

Men Governed Deception
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

In love Advantage Encounter Rivals
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

No words Wisdom Understands
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Fly Swatted Secure Lights
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Falls Character Man Badly
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Many people Prevent Thinking
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Opposite Something Imitation
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People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

Difficult Difficult Time Exciting Exciting Time
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue Premeditation Worth much
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Book Mirror Look Apostle
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate Opinion Age
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Convinced Love Ourselves Hate
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Obliged Regard Minds Clever
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Inferred Man Mistress Weaknesses
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
A handful Soldiers Mouthful Arguments
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Most people Disbelief Founded Blind belief
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Everywhere Greater part Human wisdom
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Sickness Greatest defect
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Truth Needs Garments Appeal
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Become Becomes Birth Bone
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Called An acute Human nature
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Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Afraid Aggressive Along Because
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Avoid Blame Call Own
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Babies Down Embracing Going
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'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Amazing Game GameOfThrones HBO
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Blocks Everyone Experience Expression
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Know Our weakness Cease Any harm
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I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

About Acceptance Degree Everything
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Human tendency Regard Little things
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I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

Able Bills Forecast Growing
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Life Required Bestow Superficial glance
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Grow wiser Learn Fault Instrument
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