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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.

Eric Hoffer

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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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Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.
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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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There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.
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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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To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.
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It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.
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In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
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Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
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It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
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Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
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We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact
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That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.
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Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
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