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

Eric Hoffer

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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
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
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People

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