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Eric Hoffer

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
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
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
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

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