I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
ERIC HOFFERThe only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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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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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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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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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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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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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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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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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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