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

Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
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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Adult Listening Serious Young
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness

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

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