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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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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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Be Yourself
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

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power
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer

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

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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. – Alfred Jarry

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Tradition

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau

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Tradition

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. – Jackie Kennedy

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. – Oscar Wilde

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