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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Eric Hoffer

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
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
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
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
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
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
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

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