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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Atheist Care God Religious
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
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
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
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Appearance Face Mindset People Walk
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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Imitation One Liner Rude Strength Weakness
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
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
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
Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Limitation Man Rude Strength Weakness
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
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

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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