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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
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
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
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
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
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
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
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
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars

Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

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