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Eric Hoffer Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.



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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.





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