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Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Fatigue
Eric Hoffer

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Hatred
Eric Hoffer

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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Self-sabotage
Eric Hoffer

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

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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
Uncategorised
Eric Hoffer

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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Manners
Eric Hoffer

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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
Self-image
Eric Hoffer

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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Prejudice
Eric Hoffer

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The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.
Dissent
Eric Hoffer

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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Discontent
Eric Hoffer

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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
self-esteem
Eric Hoffer

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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Existence
Eric Hoffer

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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Mediocrity
Eric Hoffer

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

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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Depression
Eric Hoffer

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Chastity
Eric Hoffer

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Freedom
Eric Hoffer

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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Generosity
Eric Hoffer

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Living Together
Eric Hoffer

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Change
Eric Hoffer

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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Resentment
Eric Hoffer

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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Obvious
Eric Hoffer

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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Novelty
Eric Hoffer

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Protest
Eric Hoffer

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Bigotry
Eric Hoffer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun