Eric Hoffer Quotes
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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I'm a good driver.
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Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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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.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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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.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman - a matter of millimetres.
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If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
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I think things will work out for the greater good for not only me but the city of Pittsburgh. I'm extremely grateful to get out in the community of Pittsburgh and not only play the game but affect other people and kids in that regard, and I'm excited about the whole process of that.
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When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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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.
