Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved b…

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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
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A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. ✨ Reflections on the Human Condition. Book by Eric Hoffer, p. 127, 1973.
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people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. ✨ Eric Hoffer (2011). The True Believer: Thoughts on the … ▶
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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. ✨ Eric Hoffer (1955). The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

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