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Eric Hoffer Quotes

American - Writer | July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Opportunities Desire Sometimes Own

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Bad News New Old Bad News

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

You Enemy Your Observing Discover

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

People Down Pleasure Size Up Malice

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Happy Enough You Never Need Get

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Leadership Degree Indispensable Some

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Eyes Reflection People Escape See

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Mother Giving Reckless Craving

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Love Man Child Whatever Call Who

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Man Reach You Play Skill Role

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Together Society Understanding Living

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

Water Wine Mediocrity Real Original

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