Eric Hoffer Quotes
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.Eric Hoffer
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
Rachel Nichols -
China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
Iqbal Quadir -
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer -
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Indra Devi -
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Ferdinand Lassalle -
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
Sal Albanese -
There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
G. Edward Griffin -
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid -
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
Nas -
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
Garry Shandling
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
Frances Beinecke -
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler -
Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham -
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
Yochai Benkler -
Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.
Barbara Broccoli
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There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.
S. C. Gwynne -
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.
Andrew Solomon -
You'll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
David Deida -
I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer