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

Eric Hoffer

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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
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
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
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 by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner

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

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