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Eric Hoffer Quotes: However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
         

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.


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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.



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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.



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



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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.



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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.





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