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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. – Eric Hoffer

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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. – Eric Hoffer

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Dont let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – dont let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. – Aesop

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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

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