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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Escape Even Feel Fire Free Pan

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Enough Get Happy Make Need Never You

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Chief Happiness Search Sources Unhappiness

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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Degree Effective Indispensable Leadership Some

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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Escape Eyes Only Others People Reflection See Some Some People Themselves

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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Age Busy Learn Left Malady No Time Our Teaching Time Us Young

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Call Child He Ills Love Man Suffers To Love Whatever Who Wretched

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

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Depended Each Living Other Society Together Understanding Would

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Come Nation Orderly Peaceful Perhaps Pleasant Seed Things Without

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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Child Interesting Man Misery Mother Nobody Old Old Man Woman Young Young Man Young Woman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 25th, 1898

Died: May 21st, 1983

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