The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
ERIC HOFFERThe history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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