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Eric Hoffer

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
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
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
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves

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