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

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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
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
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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 futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself

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