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Been Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
- The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human…
- It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes,…
- ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all…
- The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.…
- Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism…
- The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
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