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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Eric Hoffer

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
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
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
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
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
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
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
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
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk

To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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