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Eric Hoffer Inspirational Quotes (327)

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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.
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We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
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Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
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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
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When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.
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Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
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