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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
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
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself

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