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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 have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. – Eric Hoffer

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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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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. – Wendell Berry

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the days toil of any human being. – John Stuart Mill

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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. – Vernor Vinge

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