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Ends Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,…
- There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
- There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire…
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.
- Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who…
- What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
- We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to…
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The…
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