Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
ERIC HOFFERI hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Language was invented to ask questions.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Rudeness is the weak man’s limitation of strength.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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