Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFERThe future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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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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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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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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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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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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