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Quote by Eric Hoffer
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to a

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. – Eric Hoffer

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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – Eric Hoffer

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Miscellaneous
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Eric Hoffer
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Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness. – Eric Hoffer

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Tolerance
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Eric Hoffer
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Hope
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. – George Dennison Prentice

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In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. – Stanislav Grof

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Wheres the hope that can abate
The grief of hearts thus desolate
That can Youths keenest pangs assuage,
And mitigate the gloom of Age?
Religion bids the tempest cease,
And, leads her to a port of peace;
And on, the lonely pilot steers
Through the lapse of future years. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching. – Jenna Bush

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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. – Milton Friedman

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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. – Simone Weil

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But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic. – Paul Bettany

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Its about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child. – Blair Underwood

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