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Usually Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But…
- Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and…
- In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in…
- We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
- The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- To the old, the new is usually bad news.
- Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm…
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
- 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…
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world…
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