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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Eric Hoffer

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
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
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
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
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner

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