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Quote by Eric Hoffer
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love ones neighbor. – 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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Man was natures mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. – Eric Hoffer

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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy

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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Obscurity is the realm of error. – Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. – B. C. Forbes

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I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and havent made the beds. – Joan Lunden

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If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? – Mike Tyson

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