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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Eric Hoffer

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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
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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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation

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