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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Eric Hoffer

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
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
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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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way

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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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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