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The pursuit of an ideal prevents humility, for the ideal is the glorification of the self, the ego

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To follow is to deny humility. You follow because you want to succeed, to gain an end

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To practice humility, is to cultivate pride. A method implies success, and success is arrogance

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When there is humility, you can't be a reformer, or a politician

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You cannot cultivate humility; if you do, it is no longer humility but another acquisition

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