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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

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
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
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
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
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. 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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
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 only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness

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