Eric Hoffer Quotes About Time
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
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The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.
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It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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