Quote by Eric Hoffer
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. – Eric Hoffer

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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action. – Eric Hoffer

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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. – Eric Hoffer

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Don’t let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. – Terri Guillemets

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The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections. Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts. – Maharamayana

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The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. – George Bernard Shaw

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

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If you think Independence Day is Americas defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. – Tony Snow

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But if you – if what – the reports are true, what theyre saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins thats going to increase our costs, we knew that. – Barack Obama

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