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Quote by Eric Hoffer
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume t

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer

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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer

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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. – William Blake

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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound

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