Anger is a prelude to courage.
ERIC HOFFERTake 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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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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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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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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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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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