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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Eric Hoffer

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
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
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
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
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
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
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
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

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