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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a mans spirit than when we win his heart. – Eric Hoffer

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To know a persons religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. – Eric Hoffer

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If youre a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if hes good, the older he gets, the better he writes. – Mickey Spillane

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. – Orlando A. Battista

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The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution. – Virchand Gandhi

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