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“The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.”

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“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.”

Mean Self Individual Social Successful Findings Technique Communism Assertion Socializing Sociability

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.”

Knows Want Needs Conversation Dictionary Few Words

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.”

Thinking Literature Process Praise Refusal Exaggeration Exaggerating Exaggeration Is

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.”

Way Feels Light Running Suffering Talent Perspective Weakness Weak Positive Atheism Chosen Heat State Of Mind Running Away

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

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