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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Eric Hoffer

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
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
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
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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Angel Hate Human Man Nature Savior
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Born Evil Government Human Kindness Life Sick Willing
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Be Yourself Different Improvement Philosophy Transformation Wisdom
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Difference Doubt Fight Freedom Oppression Power Pride

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