Quote by Eric Hoffer
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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer

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Trust
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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. – Eric Hoffer

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Change
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. – Eric Hoffer

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Hope
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Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. – Henry H. Haskins

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The discontented man finds no easy chair. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. – George Washington

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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. – Aesop

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Appearance

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. – Leon Trotsky

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When a child is born, so are grandmothers. – Judith Levy