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Eric Hoffer Quotes: When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
         

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.


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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.



Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.



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

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



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

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



I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.



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

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



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.

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.



Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.



Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.



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.

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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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.



Ամբողջ մարմնի կենդանութիւնը հոգին է, իսկ մարմինն ու հոգին կառավարողը՝ միտքն է:The whole essence of the body is the spirit, while the governor of both spirit and body is the mind.

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So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.



To want a gift and not receive it, that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.

To want a gift and not receive it, that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.



I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.

I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.



The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.



Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?



Don't believe in success. Rather than that, believe in the amount of your effort and passion.

Don't believe in success. Rather than that, believe in the amount of your effort and passion.



I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.

I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.




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