Quote by Eric Hoffer
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing t

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer

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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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Obscurity
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. – Eric Hoffer

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Hope
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer

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Solitude
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesnt mean we can get there from here. – Kevin Kelly

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Future

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. – Carl Sandburg

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Future

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. Thats why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And thats why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country thats ready for a comeback. – Mitch McConnell

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Future

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. – Sophocles

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Future

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Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand. – Frederick II

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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves. – Robert Collier

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