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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.

Eric Hoffer

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise

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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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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