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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
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
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
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

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

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