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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
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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Difficult Empty Force Wisdom
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

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