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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action. – Eric Hoffer

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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. – Eric Hoffer

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We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. – Ron Reagan

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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. – James Wolcott

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The future and eternity are two entirely different things. – Doug Coupland

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Propaganda must appeal to mankinds better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. – Christian Lous Lange

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