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«Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.»
«Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.»
«Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.»
«A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.»
«Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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«More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.»
«The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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cohesion, constitutes, credulity, fierceness, infantile, malleability, paramount, recapitulate, The Paramount, tribal
«We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.»
«The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind»
«There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.»
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