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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Eric Hoffer

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
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
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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
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
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
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
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation

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