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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Eric Hoffer

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 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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
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
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
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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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Action Age Human Invention Language Man Talk
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
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 run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
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

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