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Opposite Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
- It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no…
- There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
- Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who…
- The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
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