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

Eric Hoffer

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
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
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
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 history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious

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