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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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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams. – Eric Hoffer

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Dreams
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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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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. – William Pitt

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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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Only useless things are indispensable. – Francis Picabia

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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. – Joseph De Maistre

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Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain
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