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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Eric Hoffer

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
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
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
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People

A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

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