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Eric Hoffer

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People

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