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Quote by Eric Hoffer
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetr

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. – 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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A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. – Charles Babbage

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Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits. – Hillary Clinton

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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white worlds definitions. – James A. Baldwin

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. – Theodor Adorno

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. – G. K. Chesterton

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