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Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Eric Hoffer

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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
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
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man 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

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