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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
Writer
New York City
New York
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.
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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
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Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.
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Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.
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It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.
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It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
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A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
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There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
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A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.
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