When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFERWe 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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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