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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
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
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism

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