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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Eric Hoffer

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
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
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

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