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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as si

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. – 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

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Evolution
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Eric Hoffer
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. – Eric Hoffer

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Technology
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Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. – John Keats

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Experience

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the days unity. – Charles Ives

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Experience

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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Experience

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. – Marco Rubio

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Experience

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. – Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783

Category:
Self-Discovery

Ive figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it. – John Mayer

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Learning

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Drugs

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Suicide