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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need publ

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

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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Storytelling
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In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer

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Change
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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. – Eric Hoffer

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Protest

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. – Art Buchwald

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Protest

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. – William Morris

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Protest

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions… Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. – A. Philip Randolph

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Protest

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – Allan Bloom

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