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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

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
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
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
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
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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Alone Country Easy History People
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

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