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Eric Hoffer was an American writer, philosopher, psychologist, and sociologist. Born in New York City, he died in San Francisco. His professional work focused on social psychology, and he was employed by the University of California, Berkeley. Hoffer was an atheist and spoke English. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
His notable works include *The Ordeal of Change*, *The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements*, *Before the Sabbath*, *First things, last things*, and *The temper of our time*. He is also quoted as saying, "Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 July 1898
- Died
- 21 May 1983
- Works
- 17
Top works
- The Ordeal of Change
- The True Believer:Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
- Before the Sabbath
- First things, last things
- The temper of our time
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 39
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,863x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,354x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,092x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,501x
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Quotes
- “My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.”
- “It's disconcerting to realize that businessmen, generals, soldiers, men of action are less corrupted by power than intellectuals... You take a conventional man of action, and he's satisfied if you obey. But not the intellectual. He doesn't want you just to obey. He wants you to get down on your knees and praise the one who makes you love what you hate and hate what you love. In other words, whenever the intellectuals are in power, there's soul-raping going on.”
- “Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.”
- “It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.”
- “It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.”
- “Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1902-07-25 ) July 25, 1902, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- May 21, 1983 (1983-05-21) (aged 80), San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Author, longshoreman
- Genre
- Philosophy , social criticism
- Notable awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom , 1983
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