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«That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.»
«Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.»
«The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.»
«The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.»
«It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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contradiction, fervent, guilt, imposing, Movements, plausible, profession, that is to say
«It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality»
«Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous»
«To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable»
«Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth»
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