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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

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 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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
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
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
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness

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