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“The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.”

“This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.”

Years Made Together Progress Wonderful Cold Band Believer True Believer

Author:Robert L. Park

“The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.”

Prayer Believer True Believer

Book:Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

Source: Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

“The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.”

Firsts May Mean Politics Left Unions China Believer Passing Passings Ideology Soviet Isolated Soviet Union Marxism True Believer Cambridge Marxism Leninism

Book:A Look at

Source: A Look at

“The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.”

Thinking Doe Ideas Helping Turns Position Critical Believer Rejection Phenomenon Arrogant Skepticism Lacking Critical Thinking True Believer

Book:Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

Source: Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

“The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility”

Poor Poverty Struggle Engaged Desperate Shelter Starvation Futility True Believer Borderline Purposeful Life

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.”

Children Remember Heard Believer Savages True Believer

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”

Feels Winning Wealth Weakness Weak Oppression Generosity True Believer Power Corrupts Power And Corruption Power Corruption

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.”

Politician Believer Prize Improvisation True Believer Dodgers

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.”

Death Terror Believer True Believer

Book:Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)

Source: Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)

“Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.”

Ifs States Government Democracy Citizens Ideals Democratic Believer Arise Locals Inevitable Boss Devoted Dictator Nevertheless True Believer Local Government Democratic Ideals

Author:Charles Edison

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