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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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
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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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
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
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing

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