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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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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End Goodness Military Rise
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
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
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious

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