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Eric Hoffer Inspirational Quotes (327)

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
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America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
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We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.
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There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.
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The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.
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When you automate an industry you modernize it when you automate a life you primitivize it.
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It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.
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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
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Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.
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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
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First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.
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It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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An empty head is not really empty it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
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The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.
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We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
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Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.
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The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
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The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
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