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Quote by Eric Hoffer
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Storytelling
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer

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Solitude
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. – Eric Hoffer

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Hope
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Modern, Modernism
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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard

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Modern, Modernism

Dont bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. – Salvador Dali

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Modern, Modernism

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino

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Modern, Modernism

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

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Modern, Modernism

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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. – Larry Adler

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Argument & Debate

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Purpose

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson

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Authors & Writing

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. – H. L. Mencken

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Love