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Interest Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
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