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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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 chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
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
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible

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