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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

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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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 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
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
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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

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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