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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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The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer

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Fear
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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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Obscurity
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer

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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. – Julius Charles Hare

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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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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. – Andre Gide

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