A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer in The Passionate State of Mind (1954)
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
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America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
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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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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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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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