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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Eric Hoffer

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

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