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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Eric Hoffer

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism

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