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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
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
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
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
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
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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