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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Eric Hoffer

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

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