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Quote by Eric Hoffer
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always

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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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

Category:
Conformity & Nonconformity
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Eric Hoffer
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Evolution
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Eric Hoffer
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People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. – Henry Louis Gates

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Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. – Kevin Mitnick

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They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food. – Willie Aames

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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. – Dorothy Day

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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. – Tom Brokaw

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