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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Eric Hoffer

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help 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
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
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
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
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
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
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success

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