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Time Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
- There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness…
- Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards…
- When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people…
- 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,…
- Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent…
- In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
- 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…
- Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
- To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers…
- The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
- Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we…
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world…
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