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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

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
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism

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