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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 future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
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
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
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.
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Energy Existence Hate Human Life Pattern Strong Struggle Survive Weakness Win
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People 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
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
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
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom

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