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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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 creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
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 the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective

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