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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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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. – Eric Hoffer

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Weakness
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. – Eric Hoffer

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Hope
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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. – Eric Hoffer

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God helps those who fear Him. – Abu Bakr

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My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that Ill kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, Now Im gonna make films for kids. I really hope I dont do that. – Trey Parker

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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to peoples sense of alarm… but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. – Brit Hume

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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. – Corrie Ten Boom

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. – James Joyce

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Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. – Walter Anderson

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