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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Eric Hoffer

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
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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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
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

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