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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
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
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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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
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
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
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
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
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
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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