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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Empty Give Hatred Life Meaning Passionate Purpose

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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Gives Giving He His Someone Sublime Us

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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Animals Machines Often Passionate Strike Us

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Believe Common Everyday Indifferent Likely Only Ourselves Possession Truth Truths

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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Bored People Primarily Themselves

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Meet Minds Wherever

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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Always Arrive Ends Fear Forget Given Hang Means Natural Often Perhaps Rather Than Them Way Would

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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.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Echo Example Eyes Imitate Much Others Ourselves Reflection Words

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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Acquiring Consists Few Good Good Habits Habits Less Living Perhaps Possible Than Wise

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Best Game Heads History Majority Middle Over Played Worst

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 25th, 1898

Died: May 21st, 1983

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