"We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution."

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Eric Hoffer

#Thinking Quotes #Literature Quotes #Way Quotes

“Health and education are always issues.”
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.”
“If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.”
“Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.”
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
“Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. â€œYouâ€™re my sacred ones,â€ I told the books. â€œNo one but me still cares about you. But Iâ€™m going to keep you with me forever. And one day Iâ€™ll make you important again.â€ I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.”
“People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it”
“I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.”

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