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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
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
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
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 savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
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
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself

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