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

Eric Hoffer

Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
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
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 greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
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 passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature

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