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If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

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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
Anybody
Written
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Good
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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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The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
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I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
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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 poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility
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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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Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.
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First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.
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Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.
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Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.
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The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
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The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
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However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
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Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.
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