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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Eric Hoffer

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
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
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
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 hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

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