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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Eric Hoffer

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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
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
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
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

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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