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Anger is a prelude to courage.

Eric Hoffer

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
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
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
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
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
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
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
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World

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