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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

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
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
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
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
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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way

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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