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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

Eric Hoffer

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
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
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
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
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
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
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
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

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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