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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
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
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
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
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
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

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