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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

Eric Hoffer

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
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
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
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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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
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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Philosophy Yourself
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
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

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