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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
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
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong

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