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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
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
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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