Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
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The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
