It's kind of funny what they've done. For calculating CAFE standards . . . requirements for manufacturers haven't changed at all.


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The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by th...
ERIC HOFFER
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
ERIC HOFFER
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a...
ERIC HOFFER
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
ERIC HOFFER
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possib...
ERIC HOFFER
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ERIC HOFFER
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
ERIC HOFFER
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
ERIC HOFFER
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of m...
ERIC HOFFER
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
ERIC HOFFER
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equippe...
ERIC HOFFER
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitaria...
ERIC HOFFER
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
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The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d...
ERIC HOFFER
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
ERIC HOFFER
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
ERIC HOFFER
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were,...
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Our great weariness comes from work not done.
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opi...
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There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
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It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the ...
ERIC HOFFER
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in th...
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