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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.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
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
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride

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