Eric Hoffer Quotes
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Quotes to Explore
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I do live a decently healthy life.
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I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.
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I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.
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Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
