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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Eric Hoffer

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
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
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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

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