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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Eric Hoffer

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth 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
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
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 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

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

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