"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-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.“
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
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"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
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"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future."
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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."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
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