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Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? we join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young nazi, "to be free from freedom."
-Eric Hoffer
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Unless A Man Has Talents To Make

Eric Hoffer
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? we join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young nazi, "to be free from freedom."
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