Eric Hoffer Quotes
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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Get rid of the idea of kids' food. Kids can eat whatever adults can eat. You know, there is one dinner, and everyone has the same thing.
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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.
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Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
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It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.
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Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
