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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 learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Build Creation Image Learning Man Nature Perfection Technology
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
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
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective

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

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