You can tell a lot about a person, by what keys they hold on their key ring.


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ERIC ROTH
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE
It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER
The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER
You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON