"All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.”
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”

Source : "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”
“I enjoy seeing anybody do good. I have no hard feelings.”
“I am not agnostic. I am atheist. I donâ€™t think there is no God; I know thereâ€™s no God. I know thereâ€™s no God the same way I know many other laws in our universe. I know thereâ€™s no God and I know most of the world knows that as well. They just wonâ€™t admit it because thereâ€™s another thing they know. They know theyâ€™re going to die and it freaks them out. So most people donâ€™t have the courage to admit thereâ€™s no God and they know it. They feel it. They try to suppress it. And if you bring it up they get angry because it freaks them out.”
“It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.”
“Good questions outrank easy answers.”

Source : Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

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