When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFERThe 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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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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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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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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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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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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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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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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