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To change everything, simply change your attitude.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
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
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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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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
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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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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