"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.“
-Eric Hoffer
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"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
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"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."
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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."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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