Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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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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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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