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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Eric Hoffer

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
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
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
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
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
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
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
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

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