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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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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer

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Truth
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The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

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Necessity
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. – Eric Hoffer

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Space
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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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

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