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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Eric Hoffer

Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
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
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run

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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