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

Eric Hoffer

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
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
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
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

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

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