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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
Sentences
Anybody
Written
Asks
Good
Accomplished

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The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
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All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
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To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.
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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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Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.
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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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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .
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Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
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Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.
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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 apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.
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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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