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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

Eric Hoffer

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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 by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

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