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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Eric Hoffer

Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
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

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