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• Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Sacrifice, Energy, Different

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• Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.399

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• The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Progress, Add, Minorities

  Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora (1987). “Egalitarian Envy: The Political Foundations of Social Justice”, New York : Paragon House

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• The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Smart, Fall

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• Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.

  Sun Tzu

  Distance, Enemy, Victory

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• Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Goodness, Doing Good

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• Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Vitality, Vigor, Pizzazz

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• The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, Important, Messages

  "Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son?". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1990.

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• Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

  Peter Senge

  Running, Long, Superior Performance

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• But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

  Steven Pinker

  Meaningful, Struggle, Believe

  "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Mean, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At equal returns, public investments are generally superior to private investments not only because they are more liquid but also because amidst distress, public markets are more likely than private ones to offer attractive opportunities to average down.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Average, Return

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• It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Sorry, Feels

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2015

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• That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.

  Cathy Hughes

  Prayer, Believe, Greatness

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• Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Suffering, Excellence

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.178, Harvard University Press

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• There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

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• Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Long, Greek

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.56, Routledge

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• If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Giving, Lust

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• Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Struggle, Majority, Esoteric

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• Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sky, Wings, Feet

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• ...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

  Greg Erwin

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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• If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Self Worth, Trying

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• The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.

  Laozi

  Leader, Interfere

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• Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by man, and not necessarily the best. It is conspicuous, noisy, and impudent, but it is inherently superior only for those who have already decided in favour of a certain ideology, or who have accepted it without ever having examined its advantages and its limits.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Philosophy, Men, Limits

  Paul Feyerabend (1982). “Against method: Outline of anarchistic theory of knowledge”

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• What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, People

  "Presumptions Of The Left". townhall.com. May 16, 2007.

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