To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFER
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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