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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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Age Children Difference Education Human Learning People Togetherness True Willing
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
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
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Choice Goodness Habit Live Possible
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
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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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

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