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Quote by Eric Hoffer
The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with other

The beginning of thought is in disagreement — not only with others but also with ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. – Eric Hoffer

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. – Sigmund Freud

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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. – Andrea Dworkin

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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot

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