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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer

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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
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
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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

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