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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
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
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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