They are panting. They're like dogs.


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Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
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The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
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To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
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The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like ...
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing...
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