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Blame The World Routine

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 25, 2024| 2 Comments »

It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.  The remarkable thing is that the successful, too, however much they pride themselves on their foresight, fortitude, thrift and other “sterling qualities,” are at bottom convinced that their success is the result of a fortuitous combination of circumstances.  The self-confidence of even the consistently successful is ever absolute.  They are never sure that they know all the ingredients which go into the making of their success.  The outside world seems to them a precariously balanced mechanism, and so long as it ticks in their favor they are afraid to tinker with it.  Thus the resistance to change and the ardent desire for it spring from the same conviction, and the one can be a vehement as the other.
    —    Eric Hoffer
From:  “The True Believer“
[#45:TrumpTheFelon – rich because he inherited it;  failure because he is a life-long loser who can’t get out of his own incompetent way.
And then there’s streaky baseball players and managers (and lots of other sports, too)…  But that’s a thought for another day / post.   LoL    —    kmab]
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Click here (25 July) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.

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