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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

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand

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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