The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift … - Eric Hoffer

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Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got. . If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not. . If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

Eric Hoffer

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

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