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

Eric Hoffer

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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
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
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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
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
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness

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