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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

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Necessity
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. – Eric Hoffer

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Men
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer

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Solitude
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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. – Polykarp Kusch

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You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you – that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have – talent, contacts, knowledge – and do something different. – Cat Deeley

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You dont know how much you know until you know how much you dont know. – Anon.

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Knowledge

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. Thats the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans. We dont simply skim the elite. – Donna Shalala

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Knowledge

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn – William Feather

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The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. – Jules Renard, “Diary,” February 1895

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I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, One day Im going to buy you a house. And she said, Boy, dont you be making promises you cant keep. I was like: No, Ma, its not a promise. Im going to buy you a house one day. – will.i.am

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. – Charles Baudelaire

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