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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

Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
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
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Corruption Deep Power Weakness
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
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Adult Listening Serious Young
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
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
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
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice

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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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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