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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Eric Hoffer

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity 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
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself

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