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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Eric Hoffer

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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
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
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
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People

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