"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.“
-Eric Hoffer
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
-Eric Hoffer
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"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
-Eric Hoffer
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"In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
-Eric Hoffer
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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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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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