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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what w

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. – 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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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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