Abram Hoffer Quotes
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The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.
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If he were just able to cross everything off, he'd start to get a little cocky, I'm sure. He'd start to rush it and maybe get a little too overly confident. He still gets tossed around in the process. That's sort of to me an indication that he still has a long way to go.
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I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces!
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We haven't gotten an indication that it would be worth our while.
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People have been asking me if I was going to have kids, and I had puppies instead.
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Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
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Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.
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Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.
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We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
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That seems to be a little bit of an indication that maybe our country's ready to get moving again.
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Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
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I think it's terrific. I think Feingold has given one more indication that as people think this through, they realize, as he said, that it's time to end this discrimination.
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The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
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Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
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Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
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Some purebred puppies suffer from hip dysplasia, an indication of canine scurvy.
