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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Eric Hoffer

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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
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
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
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
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
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
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

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