“There is an affected self-dramatizing in the brooding over one’s prospects and destiny.” — Eric Hoffer, Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook
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“We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.” — Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
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“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” — Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms
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“We usually see only the things we are looking for — so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.” — Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms
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“There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.” — Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
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“There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.” — Eric Hoffer, “Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: ‘Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,’” The New York Times Magazine (25 April 1971)
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“We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.” — Eric Hoffer, “Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: ‘Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,’” The New York Times Magazine (25 April 1971)
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“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.” — Eric Hoffer, “Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: ‘Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,’” The New York Times Magazine (25 April 1971)
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“It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.” — Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change
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“A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader.” — Eric Hoffer, Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook
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