The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
ERIC HOFFERTo change everything, simply change your attitude.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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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.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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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 future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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