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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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love ones neighbor. – Eric Hoffer

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer

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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. – Eric Hoffer

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The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but its all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. – Mike Huckabee

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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. – Kofi Annan

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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. – Charles Darwin

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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I dont want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me. – LeAnn Rimes

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Theres as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – hed rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. – John Wooden

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