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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

Eric Hoffer

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
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 basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
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
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice

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