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

Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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 search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
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
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
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
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner

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

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