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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Eric Hoffer

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
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
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
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
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present

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