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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#faith #find #his #intolerance #know

Animals often strike us as passionate machines. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

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