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Quote by Eric Hoffer
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of do

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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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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Conformity & Nonconformity
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Storytelling
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We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. – Eric Hoffer

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Freedom
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I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. – David Carradine

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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. – Desiderius Erasmus

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