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Eric Hoffer Quotes: In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
         

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.


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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.





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