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Eric Hoffer

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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.


— Eric Hoffer


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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.


— Eric Hoffer


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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.


— Eric Hoffer


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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.


— Eric Hoffer


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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.


— Eric Hoffer


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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.


— Eric Hoffer


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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.


— Eric Hoffer


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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.


— Eric Hoffer


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