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Lives Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
- To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens…
- Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is…
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly…
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
- 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.…
- Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new…
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