Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.Eric Hoffer
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth
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That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
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They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
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