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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 all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
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
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
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
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

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