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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.

Eric Hoffer

Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong

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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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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