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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.

Eric Hoffer

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 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
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
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
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
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
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
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
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
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose

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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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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