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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Eric Hoffer

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
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
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
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
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Destruction Leaving Nation Terrorism
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
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 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
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work

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