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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

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

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

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

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

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

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

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

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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Submitted by Tom in Oregon City on Wed, 2010-07-07 02:14

"Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power."

Eric Hoffer

––American social writer & philosopher (1902-1983)

— Eric Hoffer

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