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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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
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
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
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
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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