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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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Minorities
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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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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. – Eric Hoffer

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Hope
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Storytelling
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for the soul. – Natalie Kusz, Road Song, 1990

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Storytelling

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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Storytelling

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams

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Storytelling

Time, the earth, and death are living things, as stories are — so long as other living things exist to feed them, and for them to nourish in their turn. – Robert Bringhurst, 1995, Introduction to The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane

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Storytelling

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If its good theyll stop making it. – Henry Block

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Quality

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks

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Equality

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson

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Excess

If goods don t cross borders, armies will. – Fr

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War