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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.

Eric Hoffer

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
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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
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
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
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 futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves

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