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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
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The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.
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To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews , and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance.
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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
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Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong it easily becomes a fashion.
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.
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It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
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Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
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A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.
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You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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