Quote by Eric Hoffer
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. – Eric Hoffer

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Play/Games
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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Knowledge
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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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Science Fiction
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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Science Fiction

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine – Philip K. Dick

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Science Fiction

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

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Science Fiction

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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