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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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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer

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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love ones neighbor. – Eric Hoffer

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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

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To be a person is to have a story to tell. – Karen Christence Dinesen

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Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. – Robert Olen Butler

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

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

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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. – Henry Clay

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