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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Eric Hoffer

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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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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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

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