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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
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
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
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
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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