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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.

Eric Hoffer

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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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Doubt Humility Life Practice Selfish Worth
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

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.

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