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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.

Eric Hoffer

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
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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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand

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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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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