| The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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| Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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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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- Eric Hoffer |
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| Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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