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«Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
equalize, equalized, equalizes, equalizing
«Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.»
«Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.»
«There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
fugitive, fugitives, passionate, pursuer, pursuers, shrinking, The Fugitives
«There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.»
«It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
lands, pioneer, Pioneering, pioneers, undertakings
«What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?»
«We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
«It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attuned, malice, penetrating, pinch, reports, sneers, wonderfully
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