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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
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
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

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