In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.Eric Hoffer
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned.
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