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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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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. – Eric Hoffer

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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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You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. – Irene C. Kassorla

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“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. – Tom Masson

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”

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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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