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Anger is a prelude to courage.

Eric Hoffer

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
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
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 education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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Ability Achievement Country Education Important Live People Production Satisfaction
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Feeling Freedom Opinion Willing
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
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk
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
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy Run
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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Creation Creative Dance Ideas Mindset Philosophy Play
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
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

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