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Eric Hoffer Inspirational Quotes (327)

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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.
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We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
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To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
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When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.
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A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.
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The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
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In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.
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The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
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Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
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It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
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Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.
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There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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