To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
ERIC HOFFERNothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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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 free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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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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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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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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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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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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