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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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

Category:
Knowledge
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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

Category:
Obscurity
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Future
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I never have planned a whole lot of future. Its one day at a time. – Darrell Royal

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Future

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. – Nelson Mandela

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Future

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. – Gustav Mahler

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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

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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. – Slovakian Proverb

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Water

Americas downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the countrys eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. – Mohamed El-Erian

Category:
strength

The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. – Alex Jason [Popularized by Adam Savage in MythBusters. Supposedly, Karl Kruszeln

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Science

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. – Pam Brown

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Grandparents