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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. – Eric Hoffer

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Innovation
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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

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Conformity & Nonconformity
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Eric Hoffer
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. – Eric Hoffer

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Cowardice/Weakness
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[W]e do not have such a clear mirror for our minds as we do for our bodies. – TKV Desikachar

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Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. – Euripides

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Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Mind is a broken mirror. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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I had this child, and it destroyed my family. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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