Eric Hoffer Quotes

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.

  

  Yuna
  • Clothes
  • Season
  • Shop

• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

  Zara Larsson
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  • Pretty
  • Attention

• I'm a good driver.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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  • Driver

• Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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  • Healing
  • Bad Times

• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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  • Never
  • Story

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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  • True
  • Singing

• I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.

  

  Cameron Mathison
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  • Good
  • Best

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  • Person
  • Impossible

• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
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  • Work
  • Decision

• Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

  

  Patricia Marx
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  • You
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• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

  

  Victoria Justice
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  • Relationship

• To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

  

  Florence King
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  • Language
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• I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

  

  Tao Okamoto
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• Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

  

  Faith Hill
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  • Children
  • Pretty

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

  

  Jiah Khan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Air

• None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

  

  Cleo Moore
  • American

• My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Dad

• When I have children, it will be my choice, and I won't feel under any pressure.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Children

• I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
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• We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

  

  Eric Hoffer
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