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KELLY JONES The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
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occupying that niche.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
KIN HUBBARD I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.
BETSY BEERS The idea was to honor Eric.
EDWARD GARDNER Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night...
THE WONDER YEARS I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ...
THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had.
THE WONDER YEARS Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ...
THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble....
THE WONDER YEARS All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners...
THE WONDER YEARS Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug...
THE WONDER YEARS Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo...
THE WONDER YEARS We'll have to wait and see if Eric can take on the responsibility.
AL GALLAGHER Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
STOCKARD CHANNING Pete for some reason decided to stay in Carle Place all those years. Over the years, you got to know...
ALEX TRUPIANO The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly ...
JULIA SERANO The hardest thing for me is restraint.
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI The hardest part is starting and just doing it.
CHRIS PIRILLO The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
HALSEY It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all co...
BILL MUNSON The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCE The hardest part is that some of the words do have syllables in common with other words. You can con...
GREG TIPPMAN Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
LIAM HEMSWORTH The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC the hardest part of this is leaving you
SIMI GREWAL Tone is the hardest part of saying no.
JONATHAN PRICE The hardest part of life is living it.
KINSEY I thought that would be the hardest part. It was actually the easiest part.
DARREN CIOFFI The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.
GIAMBATTISTA VALLI There are many ingredients that are needed to implement, to realize the 2010 target, including build...
AHMED DJOGHLAF Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA , RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANS, SARDA DEVI Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
ANN VOSKAMP There have been times when I've wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing i...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My...Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep
CHARLAINE HARRIS Life's irony;The mediocre minds are ever ready to confront a great idea in a very great way.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through tech...
ANNA LINDH The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
EDDIE MARSAN The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER The hardest part of letting my son join the Army was knowing that he didn’t take orders very well....
DEE SHIHADY The hardest part in life is realizing how simple it is.
DANIEL GRAVES Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER The hardest part of knowng anything is deciding what it is and what it isn't.
JIM GENOVESE The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
BARRY GIBB People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographe...
PLATON Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
RICKI LAKE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.
AUDRIE PATTENN The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much
ELISABETH FOLEY The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY The hardest thing is when you go home and realize that you've grown 10 years in 2 days.
JAMES KING The hardest step to take is always the first one.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an o...
HENRY FORD The hardest part (of the research) is that it's done outside under natural conditions that are chang...
WILLIAM MANNING Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that'...
MORGAN FREEMAN The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
FAITH HILL The marketing piece is the hardest part of this job. Matching the technology with a company that can...
BOB PALMER For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.
DIANE LANE That is the hardest part, getting good people; if they're not good, you're not going to grow.
AMY VELTRI The whole idea of developing the implant is to provide a consistent delivery of medication that can ...
GLENN JAFFE I believe that we can bring a dynamically developing industry to an absolutely new level in coming m...
MICHAEL LYNTON The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, becaus...
WADADA LEO SMITH The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS The hardest part of any yoga practice is rolling out your mat.
DARREN MAIN Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life,think of it,dream of it,live on that idea. Let the bra...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Not every fairy tale story that begins with 'Once upon a time,' has a 'Happily ever after'....
KHALIA N. HADES The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
DAKOTA GOYO Whatever he could do to keep busy and be a part of the team. He did whatever needed to be done. He e...
JOE GORDILLO Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.
GLENN BECK Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an ide...
WIN NG The first hundred years are the hardest.
WILSON MIZNER The first hundred years are the hardest.
WILLIAM MIZNER The First 80 Years Are the Hardest.
CAROL CHANNING My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and...
AVI RUBIN Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have...
REBECCA SERLE For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They&...
NANCY FRIDAY The walking/working Idea;Once an idea is released into the universe by declaration,it then becomes a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
CAITLYN JENNER The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
WINNIE THE POOH I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in...
ADRIAN MCKINTY The (stocks) with the highest (price-to-earnings) take that news the hardest.
GAIL DUDACK The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
DAVE CHAPPELLE I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
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ERIC CARLE That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor ...
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ERIC CARLE They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a ch...
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ERIC CARLE These were not accidents, these were not pranks.
CHANDRA CARLE They are very powerful, very unpredictable and very volatile.
CHANDRA CARLE The number of Atlantic salmon returning to U.S. rivers last year was one of the lowest ever recorded...
DAVID CARLE This was a targeted attack on the faculty at Scripps Ranch High School.
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GILDA CARLE I'm sure Frances Bean will be on the couch for many years to come.
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GILDA CARLE I'm sure I'll get some grief from it, that's to be expected. I guess I'd rather be taking the grief ...
MATT CARLE To me, this is more about representing the University of Denver. So much has happened the last coupl...
MATT CARLE I was just throwing it on net. I don't really now how it went in, so I've got to watch it on video b...
MATT CARLE I can't thank enough what the league and the University of Denver has given me.
MATT CARLE We've got to get better defensively. We need to come out (tonight) and get two points.
MATT CARLE You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
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ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
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ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
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ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER Remembering is something God asks us to do over �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
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ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
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ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
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