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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
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
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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

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