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Eric Hoffer Quotes

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric Hoffer

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Date of Birth:
July 25, 1902
Date of Death:
May 21, 1983
Nationality:
American
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Desire, Different, Every, Intense, Perhaps
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