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Nineteenth Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.…
- Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism…
- The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
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- I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never… — James A. Michener
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- In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell
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