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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation th

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. – Eric Hoffer

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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. – Eric Hoffer

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Exaggeration
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer

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Failure
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. – Eric Hoffer

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Age
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. – Oscar Wilde

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The discontented man finds no easy chair. – Benjamin Franklin

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! – Luigi Pirandello

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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. – Soren Kierkegaard

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. – Plato

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Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things. – Boris Becker

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For passion has come to the verge and leaps headlong to the blind abyss, yet gathers thereby the strength of deeps, and eddies a moment and swirls and sweeps till peril is one with bliss! – Harriet L. Childe Pemberton

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The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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