Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for los…

Eric Hoffer
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ✨ ERIC HOFFER (1963). THE TRUE BELIEVER
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However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1980). The True Believer
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