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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
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
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
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

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