Eric Hoffer Quotes
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
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I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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I got really depressed when Sidney Moncrief lost to Larry Bird. That really depressed me.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.
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I haven't read the 'Twilight' books, though I suppose, in general, I thought it might be fun to deflate all of the notions of vampire sexiness, secret societies, the idea that anyone could learn to divide the population of the world between fellow vampires and perishable food sources and expect to retain their humanity, etc.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
