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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

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
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Character Philosophy See Wisdom Yourself
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
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Discover Enemy Fear Scare Yourself
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
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
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
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 greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
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
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

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