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New York Times (July 21, 1969)"A Time of Juveniles" The Temper of Our Time (1967)Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)Reflections on the Human Condition (1955)Reflections on the Human Condition (1932, repr. 1973)

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It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations—past and present—are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer (1902–1983), U.S. philosopher. Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 183 (1973).

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