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• The sterile radical is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.
  -- Eric Hoffe...
• Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
  -- Eric Hoffe...
• People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. -- Eric Hoffe
• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
  -- Eric Hoffer, in "The Faber Book of Aphorisms", 1964...
• Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. -- Eric Hoffe
• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. -- Eric Hoffe
• Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Eric Hoffe
• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. -- Eric Hoffe
• When freedom destroys order, desire for order will destroy freedom. -- Eric Hoffe