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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
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
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

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