Eric Hoffer Quotes
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
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The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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Human trafficking is not a business model, it is a crime, and we are going to stop it.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
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My rubber burnin, turnin corners beatin like a CongoYou try to jack and pull the strap, it's ASAP prontoThe King of the South, every hood's head honchoI'm West Side certified, go where the fuck I wanna go.
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Time flies when you are anxious!
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How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
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I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.
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They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
