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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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 bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time

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