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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

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
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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 central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
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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