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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Eric Hoffer

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
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
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
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
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

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