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Results 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,…
- Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man…
- The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
- Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
- The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born…
- Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less…
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