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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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
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
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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