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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

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
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
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Adult Difference Growth
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
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
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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Freedom Imitation People
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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End Goodness Military Rise
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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Boredom Oneself People
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 hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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