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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Eric Hoffer

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
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
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
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
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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 misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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