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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Eric Hoffer

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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 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
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
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
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
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
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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