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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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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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Knowledge
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer

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power
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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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The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. Its an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. – Mike Royko

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By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. – Ron Lewis

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. – Ambrose Bierce

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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. – John Maynard Keynes

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