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Humility is a huge thing. I remember that during the war there was a slogan plastered everywhere in the underground on the walls: "Everything depends on you or you fall." I guess some excellent psychologist came up with it, but I think it's a dangerous and harmful idea. Because it's not true. It is not true that that particular "everything," say, Mrs. Blanken, who lives in Little-Blank-in-the-Marsh, stands or falls. And if they do believe him, it will have a very bad effect on him. While you are thinking about how you can use yourself in world politics, your child pulls the teapot on himself and scalds himself.

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Humility is a huge thing. I remember that during the war there was a slogan plastered everywhere in the underground on the walls: "Everything depends on you or you fall." I guess some excellent psychologist came up with it, but I think it's a dangerous and harmful idea. Because it's not true. It is not true that that particular "everything," say, Mrs. Blanken, who lives in Little-Blank-in-the-Marsh, stands or falls. And if they do believe him, it will have a very bad effect on him. While you are thinking about how you can use yourself in world politics, your child pulls the teapot on himself and scalds himself.

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Hungarian

"Az alázat óriási dolog. Emlékszem, a háború alatt a földalattiban mindenfelé fel volt mázolva a falakra egy jelmondat: "Minden rajtad áll vagy bukik." Gondolom, valami kitűnő pszichológus eszelte ki, de szerintem ez egy veszedelmes és káros gondolat. Merthogy nem igaz. Nem igaz, hogy az a bizonyos "minden", mondjuk, a Little-Blank-in-the-Marshban lakó Mrs. Blanken áll vagy bukik. És ha mégis elhitetik vele, az igen rossz hatással lesz rá. Miközben azon töri majd a fejét, hogyan is hasznosíthatná magát a világpolitikában, a gyereke lerántja magára a teáskannát, és leforrázza magát."

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