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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

1955

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Conformity Man as social animal

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1955

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Eric Hoffer

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Hoffer, Eric. The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms. Harper & Row, 1955, no. 33.

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