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A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
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New York City
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
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