| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 28576 |
| QUOTATION: | 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 that no longer exists. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Eric Hoffer (19021983), U.S. philosopher. Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 32 (1932, repr. 1973).
This passage was used as the epigraph in A.E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1955). |
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