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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.

Eric Hoffer

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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
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
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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

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