Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFERRudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
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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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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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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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