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Quote by Eric Hoffer
The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pur

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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The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer

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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. – 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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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word. – Elizabeth I

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Make yourself necessary to somebody. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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