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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.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
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New York City
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Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.
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Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.
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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
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Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.
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