Quote by Eric Hoffer
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. – Eric Hoffer

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The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

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Necessity
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer

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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. – Eric Hoffer

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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. – Orville Redenbacher

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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today. – Uwe Boll

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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies dont. – John Stossel

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. – James Madison

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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. – Christian Lous Lange

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