The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

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One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west. ― Malcolm X

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ― Ernest Hemingway

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

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You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ― George Orwell

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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ― George Orwell

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.― George Orwell

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