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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
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
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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
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

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