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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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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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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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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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The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.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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And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher sat in front of me watching every mouthful, just as though he hadn’t had an enormous dinner a few minutes before, and the cat, finished with Knobbie’s ears, deftly turned her over and began tidying her stomach, I did feel that my feet were set once more in the path of peace, and that all I had to do was to continue steadily along it.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
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What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
