When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.Eric Hoffer
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
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