Eric Hoffer Quotes

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffer

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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.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
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• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
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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.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
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  • Enemy

• 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.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Cool
  • Christian
  • Talent

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • 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.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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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.

  

  Patrick Ness
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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.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
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• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
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• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'

  

  Marcus Brigstocke
  • People
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• I can’t imagine ever giving up theater; it’s been a part of who I am since I was eight years old.

  

  Stephen Wallem
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• We are proud to be the No. 1 most funded film on Indiegogo... and with a totally new property. In a world filled with sequels and reboots, Lazer Team is a brand-new IP being made possible by the people who want to see it.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • People
  • World
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• I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing in prison. When you read, it opens up your mind; it helped us take our minds away from where we were.

  

  Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Mind
  • Read
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• We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Mind