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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
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
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
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
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
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
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

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