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

Eric Hoffer

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
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
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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

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