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Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
- The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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