Quote by Eric Hoffer
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflecti

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

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The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer

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Fear
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. – Eric Hoffer

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Be Yourself
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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. – Eric Hoffer

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Play/Games
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith

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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. – Confucius

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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I dont mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. – Toni Morrison

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