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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

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Beautiful Deal Equipment Existence Learning Truth World
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
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy

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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