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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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
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 passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking 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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Adult Listening Serious Young
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
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
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

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