Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
ERIC HOFFERThose who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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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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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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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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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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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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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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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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