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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
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
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice

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