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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
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

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

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