Eric Hoffer Quotes
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.
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I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
