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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Eric Hoffer

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
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
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
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
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
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
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
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself 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
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
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

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