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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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ↗

— 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

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— 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 is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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