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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.

Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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 hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
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
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
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
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 dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love

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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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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