Eric Hoffer Quotes
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Quotes to Explore
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.
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If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
