The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Eric Hoffer
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  3. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. - Orson Scott Card

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More Quotes By Eric Hoffer
  1. Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

  2. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

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

  4. The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

  5. 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.

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