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.
ERIC HOFFERWe can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.
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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
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Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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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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