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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Eric Hoffer

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
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
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
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
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness

To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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