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Eric Hoffer

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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.


— Eric Hoffer


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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.


— Eric Hoffer


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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.


— Eric Hoffer


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Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.


— Eric Hoffer


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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.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.


— Eric Hoffer


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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.


— Eric Hoffer


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


— Eric Hoffer


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Certainly Europe had undergone a similar destruction of tradition but it had occurred centuries earlier at the end of the Medieval period and produced better results thanks to different circumstances. " He saw these puberty rites as essential for self-esteem and noted that mass movements and juvenile mindsets tend to go together to the point that anyone no matter what age who joins a mass movement immediately begins to exhibit juvenile behavior. Consequently self-loathing produces explosive effects that cannot be mitigated through social engineering schemes such as programs of wealth redistribution.

In 2001 the Eric Hoffer Award was establiEric Hofferd in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005. His first book The True Believer publiEric Hofferd in 1951 was widely recognized as a classic receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.

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