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Eric Hoffer

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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 future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

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