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Distinctness Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to…
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- It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the… — James Madison
- Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at… — Eugene Dubois
- As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off… — Eric Hoffer
- The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both… — Eric Hoffer
- What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day… — George Eliot
- I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness… — Edgar Allan Poe