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Eric Hoffer


American
July 25, 1902
Writer
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Children are the keys of paradise.


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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.


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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.


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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.


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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.


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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.


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Tags: Life Give Purpose
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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.


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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.


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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.


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Tags: Like Other Pride
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.


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Tags: Power Sense Often
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.


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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.


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Tags: Would Which Those
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.


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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.


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Tags: Best Know How
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.


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Tags: Who Own His
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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Tags: Good More Than
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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Tags: More Than Social
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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Tags: Change Think Way
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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Tags: Us Doing Feeling