We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFERNothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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For 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.
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
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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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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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