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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.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
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
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose

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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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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