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"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
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"I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever."

"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes."

"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."

"The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language."

"A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else."

"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
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"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."


"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."


"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
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