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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

#acts #brand #distant #hope #opiate

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

— Eric Hoffer

#difficult #exaggerate #influence #influenced #those

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#being #kind #kindness #made #motive

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#get #image #important #once #right

I don't want to repeat myself. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#myself #repeat #want

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#concern #improvement #more #motives #purity

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#interesting #man #misery #mother #nobody

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#copulate #meet #minds #wherever

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate