American - Writer | July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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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.
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
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