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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
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
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

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