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Enormously Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- 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…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
- There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those…
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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… — Eric Hoffer