Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
ERIC HOFFERTo change everything, simply change your attitude.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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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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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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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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