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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Eric Hoffer

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
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth

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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