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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Eric Hoffer

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
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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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
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
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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

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