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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
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
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
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
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Doctor Humanity Room Sick Soul World
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
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
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves

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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