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

Eric Hoffer

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
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
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious

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