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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul

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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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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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer

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Truth
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Hope
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. – Dave Eggers

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Hope

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. – Emile M. Cioran

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Mind your own business. But love your neighbor as yourself. – David C. Hill, ***Dave Does the Blog (hill-kleerup.org/blog)

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Wise Words

Time flies on restless pinions — constant never. – Friedrich Schiller

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Time

Mans greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. – Frederick Douglass

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Right, Rightness

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. – Margaret Sanger

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alone