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

Eric Hoffer

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth 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
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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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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Change Children Education Student Trouble
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

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