It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.Eric Hoffer
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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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us
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