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Quote by Eric Hoffer
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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

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Fear
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. – Eric Hoffer

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Hope
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Other Quotes from
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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Tradition

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. – James Agee

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Tradition

Im an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. – Johnny Depp

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Tradition

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

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Tradition

Random Quotes

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan

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Peace

If there were only one truth, you couldnt paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. – Pablo Picasso

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Truth

On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins. – Jon Landau

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amazing

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth