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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#doubts #every #evil #formidable #lurking

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#easier #humanity #neighbor #than #to love

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#blessings #count #enables #hardest #master

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#considerable #extent #faith #holy #lost

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#language #leader #must #practical #realist

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#free #imitate #other #people #please

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. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#frustration #greater #lack #less #many

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. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#eyes #only #others #people #reflection

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

— Eric Hoffer

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