Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.
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Free Tibet before free trade.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.
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Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
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During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst.
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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
