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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
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
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation 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
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

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