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Eric Hoffer
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Eric Hoffer
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.
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Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Eric Hoffer
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
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