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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
Writer
New York City
New York
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In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
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We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
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