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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Eric Hoffer

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
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
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People

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