Eric Hoffer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
