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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Eric Hoffer

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

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