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

Eric Hoffer

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Change Children Education Student Trouble
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
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
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 future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
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
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Compassionate Justice Man Principle Protection
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
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
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Guilty Justice Right Voice
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Alive Feeling Inspirational Possible
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Attitude Character Food Hands People
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

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

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