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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
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
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

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