Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFEROur 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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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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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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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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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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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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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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