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When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. the individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. this is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
-Arthur Koestler
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When A Person Identifies Himself With A

Arthur Koestler
When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. the individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. this is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
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