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Potent Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.
- The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes…
- It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,…
- Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
- We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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