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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. – Eric Hoffer

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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. – Eric Hoffer

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Weakness
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Storytelling
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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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Hope
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When we dont have what we like, we must like what we have. – Proverb

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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants… – Joseph Addison

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Satisfaction

You can never get enough of the things you dont need, because the things you dont need can never satisfy. – Marvin J. Ashton

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Satisfaction

To be able to look back upon ones past life with satisfaction is to live twice. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. – Michael Haneke

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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. – Bible

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We speak little if not egged on by vanity. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it. – John Anderson

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design