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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
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
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
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
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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