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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

Eric Hoffer

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 trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
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
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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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
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 Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

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