Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

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"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

- Eric Hoffer

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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

- Eric Hoffer

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"How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."

- Eric Hoffer

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"Creativity is discontent translated into arts."

- Eric Hoffer

Creativity

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

- Eric Hoffer

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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