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Quote by Eric Hoffer
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dis

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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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer

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We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. – Eric Hoffer

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Freedom
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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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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. – Don DeLillo

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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. – Taylor Caldwell

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Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde

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I cant say that Ive changed anybodys life, ever, and thats the real work of the world, if you want a better society. – Charles Kuralt

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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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