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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.

Eric Hoffer

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
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 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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
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
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People

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