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

Eric Hoffer

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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk

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

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