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, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.Eric Hoffer
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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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