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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself 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
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

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

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