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Letter "E" » Eric Hoffer Quotes
«The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.»
«There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.»
«Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.»
«It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.»
«The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us»
«The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause»
«There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members»
«The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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«It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words»
«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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