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people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.
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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New York City
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.
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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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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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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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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
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Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
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The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.
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A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
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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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The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.
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The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
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We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.
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EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.
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