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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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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I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.
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Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.
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Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
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I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
