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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Eric Hoffer

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
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
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
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young

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