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

Eric Hoffer

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
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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Philosophy Yourself
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
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
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

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

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