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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Eric Hoffer

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
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
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 search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
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
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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

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