Eric Hoffer Quotes

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Eric Hoffer

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• Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

  

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• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

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• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

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• There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

  

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• When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

  

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• I've always loved fashion.

  

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• They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

  

  Rafael Correa
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• Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

  

  Sam Kean
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• I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

  

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• I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Live
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• I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  

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• This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

  

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• I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.

  

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• I've always been extremely physical.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• The teacher offers guidance here and there, but the primary factor, the driving force, in your relationship and work together is the student's own commitment and desire to learn. Teaching is like sailing: The wind and the sails give the boat its motion. Your role (as a teacher) is to steer and guide.

  

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• Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself

  

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• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

  

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion - the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  

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• If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  

  Larry Miller
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• I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

  

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• The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

  

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• Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

  

  Eric Hoffer