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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
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
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
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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young

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