Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.Eric Hoffer
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The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
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