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Quote by Eric Hoffer
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to a

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. – Eric Hoffer

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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer

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Conformity & Nonconformity
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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Mind
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Ill always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life Ill sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when Im not there, but Ill always come back. – Steve Jobs

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Hope

I am a beneficiary of the American peoples generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here. – Madeleine Albright

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Hope

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. Theyre the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run. – Howard Dean

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Hope

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. – Don Quixote

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Hope

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If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted! – Valerie Clague

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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. – William E. Barrett

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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. – Robert E. Lee

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