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

Eric Hoffer

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
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
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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 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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature

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