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Children are the keys of paradise.

Children are the keys of paradise. - Eric Hoffer

Children are the keys of paradise. Eric Hoffer

Family, Children, Keys

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. Eric Hoffer

Thankful, Blessings, Which

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. Eric Hoffer

Trust, Wonderful, Always

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Eric Hoffer

Disappointment, Soul, Too

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. - Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. Eric Hoffer

Lick, Bite, Kicks

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. - Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. Eric Hoffer

Themselves, Propaganda, Does

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. Eric Hoffer

Mind, Doubts, Lurking

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Eric Hoffer

Nature, Ability, Introduce

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer

Leader, Realist, Practical

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. Eric Hoffer

Head, Difficulty, Forcing

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

Happiness, Search, Sources

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. Eric Hoffer

Luck, Good Luck, Die

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. Eric Hoffer

Bad, More, Contagious

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. Eric Hoffer

Dissent, Most, Feels

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. Eric Hoffer

Lie, Loudest, Ourselves

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. Eric Hoffer

Surprise, Doing, Pleasure

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. Eric Hoffer

Men, Doing, Weary

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. Eric Hoffer

Need, Private, Troublemakers

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 of play. Eric Hoffer

Play, Role, Which

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. Eric Hoffer

Mistake, She, Neglected

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Eric Hoffer

Good, Compassion, Within

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. - Eric Hoffer

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Eric Hoffer

Future, Power, Shape

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer

Kind, Made, Motive

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. Eric Hoffer

Sky, Space, Passionate

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Eric Hoffer

Passionate, Hatred, Give

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. Eric Hoffer

New, Self-Esteem, Crisis

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