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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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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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Mind
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Eric Hoffer
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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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To know a persons religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. – Eric Hoffer

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Faith
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Other Quotes from
Tradition
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

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Tradition

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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Tradition

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Tradition

I felt theres a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. Id be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk

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Tradition

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Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom…. It is true as sunbeams… – Douglas Jerrold, “Our Honeymoon: An Apology and An Explanation,” in Punch, Volxx

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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intuition

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq. – Bill Richardson

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positive

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues. – James Dyson

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Science