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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
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
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
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning 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

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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