Eric Hoffer Quotes
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
