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

Eric Hoffer

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
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
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
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature

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