The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.Eric Hoffer
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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