Quote by Eric Hoffer
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – 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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power
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love ones neighbor. – Eric Hoffer

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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Only the mediocre are always at their best. – Jean Giraudoux

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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. – Proverb

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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