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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

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young

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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