Language was invented to ask questions.
ERIC HOFFERAbsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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