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Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
Writer
New York City
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Sinner
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.
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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.
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It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.
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That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.
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