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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Eric Hoffer

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
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
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
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
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
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength 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
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

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