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" There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. "

Eric Hoffer

Pleasure

Size

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Want

" Animals often strike us as passionate machines. "

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" Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. "

" There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. "

" A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. "

" To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. "

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

" Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. "

" 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. "

" Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. "

" A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. "

" Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. "

" We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. "

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" We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. "

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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. "

" Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. "

" When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. "