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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Eric Hoffer

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
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
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
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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 easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love

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