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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
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
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

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