You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFERWe all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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