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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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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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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

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Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, were gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things. – Evel Knievel

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