Quote by Eric Hoffer
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause,

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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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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Fear
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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Obscurity
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. – Eric Hoffer

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Space
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Storytelling
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Australian Aborigines say that the big stories—the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life—are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. – Robert Moss

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Storytelling

Stories give color to black and white information. – Todd Stocker

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Storytelling

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. – Rudyard Kipling

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Storytelling

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. – Anthony De Mello

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Storytelling

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Today, over half of Chinas undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of Americas undergraduates pursue these schools. – Cathy McMorris

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