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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

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
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands 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
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
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
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth

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