Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
~ Confucius
Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
~ John Lanchester
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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.
~ Albert Camus
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A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.
~ Umberto Eco
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. …
You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
~ Gertrude Stein
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I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are expressed.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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