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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

Topics: Beautifully Change Deal Earth Equipped Exists Find Inherit Learned Learners Longer Themselves Times While World

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Idealist Language Leader Must Practical Realist Talk Visionary

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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

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Topics: Future Only Power Predict Shape Way

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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Altogether Derive Doing Favors Feeling Gives Ourselves Partly Pleasant Pleasure Surprise Us Worthless

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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Believes Doubts Every Evil Formidable Lurking Mind More Person Suspicious Than

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Anything Difficulty Empty Forcing Head Hence Really Rubbish Stuffed

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Children are the keys of paradise.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Children Keys Paradise

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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Discover Enemy Fears Frighten He Means Most Observing Uses You Your

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Alone Apart Between Compassion Continuous Evil Good Good And Evil Stands Traffic Us Within

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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

Topics: Built Emptiness Evil Greatest Hardest Hardest Thing Hide Our Pretenses Something The Hardest Thing Thing Ugly Up Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 25th, 1898

Died: May 21st, 1983

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