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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
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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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
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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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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