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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#break #heart #his #man #more

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#game #heads #history #majority #middle

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#idea #into #mediocrity #original #original idea

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#attuned #ears #enhances #evil #fellow

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#consider #human #human body #human mind #mind

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#efforts #eternal #existence #himself #his

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #book #did #feel #go

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#always #different #difficult #growing #growing up