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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.


Eric Hoffer

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
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GENE TUNNEY There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN All living things including man are interdependence upon each other.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each oth...
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ELIE WIESEL This team loved each other and we would die together.
JEFF OVERTON Surely if each one saw another's heart,There would be no commerce,No sale or bargain pass: all would...
GEORGE HERBERT We're just playing much better basketball, plain and simple. Guys are sticking together, understandi...
ZACH RANDOLPH Based upon the information contained in this, there's no doubt it was written by Eric.
CHARLES STONE They resented the patronage they depended upon.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Really, all living humans are closely related to each other. If you take different people's DNA and ...
CARL ZIMMER If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Eric loves Buffalo. He loves the fans. He loves living there. He's a Buffalo person. But should he g...
HARRY HENDERSON If you put it all together, each house would have $400 to spend (a year) on things other than energy...
JENNIFER MORGAN If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
MARK TWAIN They know each other a little bit better on the floor and growing up together teaching each other ho...
DOUG BOXELL There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and...
ANUJ SOMANY But... we will always be drawn together. We'll always crave each other. We'll always be in tune with...
SHELLY CRANE If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, fo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Those 18 girls, the experience they had together and just getting to know each other so well and lit...
BROOKE VAN LANEN When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what...
ALICE COOPER Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human communit...
LEWIS B. SMEDES If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD BYRON If we understand we need each other, we will keep together.
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JOSH BILLINGS If I have no children what would be the point of living.
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DAVE MCKEAN If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.-RVM
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BEDE GRIFFITHS Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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KYLE ADAMS I think some of (the developments) would be quite nice if there was some space around them. It's alm...
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DEVASKI We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.
PHIL ROBERTSON I'd expect if they face each other it would be quite a basketball game.
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SAAIF ALAM There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTON If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G.K. CHESTERTON Without understanding there will be no conversion
SUNDAY ADELAJA Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenme...
MALCOLM X We take pride in each other - we were meant to be together.
MELISSA GILBERT Pray as if everything depended on GOD, Act as if everything depended on yourself!
UNKNOWN Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s...
LIONEL BLUE If they had resources, they would not be killing each other over grazing ground and water.
WANGARI MAATHAI There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
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BRYCE COURTENAY If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO You get what you concentrate upon... there is no other main rule.
JANE ROBERTS If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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ERIC HOFFER One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...
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ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER