It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetratin…

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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

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