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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.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
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
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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands 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
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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Atheist Care God Religious
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
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
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth 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 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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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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