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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
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
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Choice Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Children Leadership Transformation
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

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