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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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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer

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Mediocrity
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Eric Hoffer
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The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

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Necessity
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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. – Eric Hoffer

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

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Dissent

Assent — and you are sane — , demur — youre straightway dangerous — , and handled with a Chain — . – Emily Dickinson

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Dissent

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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Dissent

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

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Dissent

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