The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFERWe 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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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