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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
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
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
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
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself

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