To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Eric Hoffer
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  1. Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

  2. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

  3. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  4. The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

  5. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

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