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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.

Eric Hoffer

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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
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
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Ability Capacity Ourselves Respect Tolerance
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
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
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Ideas Leadership Play Quality World
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
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
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 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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