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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actuall

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. – Eric Hoffer

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Man was natures mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. – Eric Hoffer

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. – Eric Hoffer

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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. – Freda Adler

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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality. – Garrett Hardin

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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. – Marcel Proust

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I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that Im used to. – Dennis Quaid

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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. – Mikhail Bakunin

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