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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

Eric Hoffer

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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
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
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
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
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

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