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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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A man by himself is in bad company. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. ↗

— 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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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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