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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.

Eric Hoffer

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
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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Life Live Obsession Passionate World
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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

Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.

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