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" A man by himself is in bad company. "
Eric Hoffer
Company
Himself
Man
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" We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. "
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" The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. "
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" Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. "
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" The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. "
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" The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. "
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" The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. "
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" The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. "
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" It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. "
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" It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. "
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" Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. "
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" It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. "
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Nobody
Immigrants
Hate
" 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
Trust
Someone
" Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. "
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Love
Child
Who
" Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. "
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Ability
Nature
Creativity
" When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. "
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Believe
Truth
Common
" The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. "
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Visionary
Language
Leader
" Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. "
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Passionate
Stars
Space
" We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "
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Always
Hang
Fear
" It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. "
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People
Things
Taste
" We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. "
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Even
Free
Escape
" Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. "
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Specific
Self-Esteem
Smelled
" There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. "
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Than
Failure
House
" In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. "
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Earth
Change
World
" One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. "
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Society
Passion
Action
" To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. "
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Brand
Faith
Find
" Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. "
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Perishable
Talent
Itself
" Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. "
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Lost
Cause
Faith
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New
Crisis
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" We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. "
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Lie
Ourselves
Loudest