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.
ERIC HOFFERFar more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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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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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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