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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 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

Power, Shape, Future

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

Always, Trust, Wonderful

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

Disappointment, Too, Soul

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

Motive, Made, Kind

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

Nature, Introduce, Ability

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

Bite, Lick, Kicks

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

Leader, Practical, Realist

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

Doubts, Lurking, Mind

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer

Learning, Deal, Learned

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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. Eric Hoffer

Desire, Perhaps, Different

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

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. Eric Hoffer

Some, Awareness, Must

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer

Built, Pretenses, Ugly

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

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. Eric Hoffer

Spring, System, Vigor

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer

His, Failure, Than

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. Eric Hoffer

Most, Poignant, Almost

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

Blessings, Thankful, Which

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. Eric Hoffer

Lie, Ourselves, Loudest

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

New, Self-Esteem, Crisis

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

Passionate, Space, Sky

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer

Most, Discover, Means

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer

Desire, Intense Desire, Own

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

Doing, Weary, Men

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. Eric Hoffer

Better, Which, Actual

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