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

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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Protest
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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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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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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

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. – Chinese Proverb

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Discontent

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. – David Rockefeller

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Discontent

Let thy discontents be thy secrets. – Benjamin Franklin

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Discontent

Random Quotes

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make. – Dave Matthews

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Hope

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a persons belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. – Arthur C. Brooks

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Happiness

If the Liberals law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. – Stockwell Day

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Education

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes

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Dreams