To change everything, simply change your attitude.
ERIC HOFFERFor many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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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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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
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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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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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