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

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
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
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
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
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness

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