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Eric Hoffer
July 25, 1902 - May 21, 1983
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

   

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

   

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

   

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

   

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

   

Children are the keys of paradise.

   

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

   

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

   

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

   

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

   

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

   

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

   

A man by himself is in bad company.

   

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

   

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

   

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