Paul Hoffman quote: "If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success."

At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President T...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in...
PAUL HOFFMAN

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
PAUL HOFFMAN

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The ...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more tha...
PAUL HOFFMAN

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch o...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’
‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considere...
PAUL HOFFMAN

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered...
PAUL HOFFMAN

In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing...
PAUL HOFFMAN

(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch.
PAUL HOFFMAN

Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
'From hell, to take you away in the...
PAUL HOFFMAN

I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
PAUL HOFFMAN

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
PAUL HOFFMAN

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of ...
PAUL HOFFMAN

- Why you?
- (...) I’m the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has noth...
PAUL HOFFMAN

... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always ...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, th...
PAUL HOFFMAN

To be sociable is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most o...
PAUL HOFFMAN

...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dr...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but alw...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Better a live dog than a dead lion.
PAUL HOFFMAN

Get on your feet or die.
PAUL HOFFMAN

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understa...
PAUL HOFFMAN

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done c...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an ...
PAUL HOFFMAN

...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an...
PAUL HOFFMAN

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, ...
PAUL HOFFMAN

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
PAUL HOFFMAN

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more gr...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never a...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family,...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars o...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade....
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

It's beginning to bump up, but we don't think that it's nearly as vulnerable as some other technolog...
ALAN HOFFMAN

Everyone is always trying to smoke out the Fed.
ALAN HOFFMAN

We will see volatility in the technology sector as always, but longer term we think the U.S. equity ...
ALAN HOFFMAN

Intel has become a fairly significant barometer.
ALAN HOFFMAN

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,
ALAN HOFFMAN

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid ar...
ALAN HOFFMAN

This certainly makes the case for investing in companies that export. Their costs are dollar based a...
ALAN HOFFMAN

The problem for the next seven weeks will be this tug-of-war. Until we start seeing earnings taking ...
ALAN HOFFMAN

I would buy good retailers -- especially on dips,
ALAN HOFFMAN

In this volatile market, the best procedure is to buy on dips. There are going to be days when the m...
ALAN HOFFMAN

Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.
REID HOFFMAN

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.
LISA HOFFMAN

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as gr...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tent...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappea...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always hel...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishin...
ALICE HOFFMAN

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading i...
ALICE HOFFMAN

We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back S...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern li...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
ALICE HOFFMAN

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over...
ALICE HOFFMAN

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're ...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experienc...
BOB HOFFMAN

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be n...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Blame is for God and small children.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
BARBARA HOFFMAN

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I beli...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Books may well be the only true magic.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a ...
EVA HOFFMAN

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.
REID HOFFMAN

I usually allocate time each week to work on topics outside of the normal workflow. These topics can...
REID HOFFMAN

I am deathly allergic to cats. I mean, I love all animals, but they're not my animal of choice.
RICK HOFFMAN

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats a...
DOUG HOFFMAN

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular th...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty t...
REID HOFFMAN

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions mad...
REID HOFFMAN

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations mo...
REID HOFFMAN

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strength...
REID HOFFMAN

Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.
REID HOFFMAN

I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've ...
REID HOFFMAN

I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.
REID HOFFMAN

Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 1...
REID HOFFMAN

As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a fiv...
REID HOFFMAN

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, ...
REID HOFFMAN

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who...
REID HOFFMAN

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they...
REID HOFFMAN

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn shou...
REID HOFFMAN

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.
REID HOFFMAN

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
REID HOFFMAN

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and...
REID HOFFMAN

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is s...
REID HOFFMAN

The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the...
REID HOFFMAN

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca...
REID HOFFMAN

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
REID HOFFMAN

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
REID HOFFMAN

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
REID HOFFMAN

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really po...
REID HOFFMAN

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Act...
REID HOFFMAN

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
ALICE HOFFMAN

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be t...
ALICE HOFFMAN

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic....
ALICE HOFFMAN

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then...
MARY HOFFMAN

The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie...
ANDREW HOFFMAN

It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe...
ANDREW HOFFMAN

Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th...
ANDREW HOFFMAN

It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year.
ANDREW HOFFMAN

(The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN

About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN

I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN

It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN

As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN

I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN

If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN

I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN

I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN

We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding al...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN

People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN

We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN

Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN

All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN

It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN

The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN

We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether the...
REID HOFFMAN

Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, bu...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be ...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a h...
ALICE HOFFMAN

It is exactly the strategy of the terrorists to create a vacuum of disorder and lawlessness, and the...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

We still have difficulty imagining women as killers rather than as mothers,
BRUCE HOFFMAN

Their assistance has been genuine, if motivated in large measure by self-preservation. You have to g...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more eff...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

We're seeing the automated battlefield, but we're not the ones who are in technological control. The...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

All these defense firms have already, since the cold war, been diversifying. The public expectations...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

It could be that because we were vigilant, because we were on guard, because of the warnings we issu...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

And that becomes the justification or the rationale for violence. Often attached to that or married ...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regular...
BRUCE HOFFMAN

Our eyes almost popped out of our head.
BRIAN HOFFMAN

It was a lot of businesses around the area that also had acts so they jumped from place to place so ...
BRIAN HOFFMAN

They find they need to be available more than 40 hours because a user they need to catch up with isn...
BRIAN HOFFMAN

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.
BRIAN HOFFMAN

We are served by everything from corporate types from Abbott Labs through members of the military se...
BRIAN HOFFMAN

[Brian Hoffman, a 2005 graduate of Pearce High School in Richardson, was in New Orleans for five day...
BRIAN HOFFMAN

As a pair of luxury communities, we have been attractive to people who have been more stable in thei...
BRIAN HOFFMAN

I think the pool and clubhouse at Northgate are important,
BRIAN HOFFMAN

I asked when I bought my home if I could have a pickup truck, and they said it was OK as long as it ...
BOB HOFFMAN

You can choose one or two or three or none.
BOB HOFFMAN

Maybe if you're on the highway, you could hit a deer and fuel your car, or you could use leftovers f...
BOB HOFFMAN

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technol...
REID HOFFMAN

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it&...
REID HOFFMAN

As for Gus, he had come to Haddan with no appreciation for the human race and no expectations of his...
ALICE HOFFMAN

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
ALICE HOFFMAN

Trump often says he needs to keep his tax returns private until the IRS finishes auditing him. But t...
REID HOFFMAN

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we c...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and VERY important. -Lisa Hoffman.
LISA HOFFMAN

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
LISA HOFFMAN

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be su...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
HANS HOFFMAN

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse...
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it...
ALICE HOFFMAN

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
BARBARA HOFFMAN

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

follow the evidence wherever it leads.
DAVID HOFFMAN

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrong...
DAVID HOFFMAN

I want you to pay close attention to the rumor, innuendo, opinion and what purports to be news as op...
DAVID HOFFMAN

You've got your horse out there, and he pitches his butt off in that situation, it's my job to nail ...
TREVOR HOFFMAN

He takes great pride in it. He's always attentive to the game situation, knows when we're going to p...
TREVOR HOFFMAN

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

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