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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.

Eric Hoffer

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
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
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible

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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