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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
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
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
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
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
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves

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