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Quote by Eric Hoffer
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a mans spirit than

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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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. – Eric Hoffer

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Fear
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer

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power
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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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Evolution
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – George Orwell

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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all – of which all of humanity can be proud. – Oliver Tambo

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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran

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Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. – Bryant H. McGill

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Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing learn by necessity.
Wise men do in the beginning what fools do in the end. – Source Unknown

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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. – Stephen King

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we dont like? – Jean Cocteau

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. – E. B. White

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