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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong

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