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Quote by Eric Hoffer
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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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. – Eric Hoffer

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Men
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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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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. – Eric Hoffer

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All cases are unique and very similar to others. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Innovation

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. – Bliss Carman

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Innovation

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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Innovation

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? – G. W. F. Hegel

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Innovation

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Saddle your dreams before you ride em. – Mary Webb

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Look to the future, because that is where youll spend the rest of your life. – George Burns

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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. – Bono

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