Eric Hoffer Quotes
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
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I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
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I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
