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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Dissatisfied Frustration Greater Lack Less Many More Much Nothing One Thing Our Seem Some Than Thing Things Want

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Craving Giving Having Mother Oneself Reckless

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Ability Action Directly Dispense Marks Midwife Pass Passion Society Thought Truly Vigorous

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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

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Topics: Full Heresy Only Spring System Vigor

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Experience Insights Many Saint Sinners Stem

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A man by himself is in bad company.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Bad Company Himself Man

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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Assume Bad Contagious Generalize Good More Potent Prone Than

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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Creates Desire Intense Only Opportunities Own Seems Sometimes Talent Talents

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Attracts Evil Often Power Promise Sense Weak

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Lie Loudest Ourselves

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 25th, 1898

Died: May 21st, 1983

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