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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
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 search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
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
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
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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

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