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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Eric Hoffer

Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
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
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
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
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste

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