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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious

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