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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
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
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
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk

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