Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFERDeath has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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