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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.

Eric Hoffer

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
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
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
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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

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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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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