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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

Eric Hoffer

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
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World

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