It would be like a culture shock. It's not something we're used to.
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CELSO AMORIM It's a real culture shock. Leaving is not only hard because they would be so isolated from their par...
DON KRAYBILL I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it wo...
EMMITT SMITH To say they were involved in drugs or something like that, they would be the very last people on ear...
DARRYL FISHER It's going to be a large enough culture shock coming here as it is.
JOE KELLER It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to ima...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS It would be one thing if the cars were flexible like a caterpillar or something, but they are not.
JOHN SMITH If there were something that I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE It's certainly not a shock to me, and I don't think it would be a shock to anyone on Wall Street tha...
ANTHONY BUTLER It think it would be a real shock to European football.
STEVE MCCLAREN Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflec...
DAVID SHIELDS I know it's going to be a major culture shock, ... From little Hibbing to big Beijing.
AMY JORDAN Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used thei...
DAVID FLEMING If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be cons...
PABLO PICASSO It was a real culture shock. It was a very fast-paced, demanding fishbowl.
BOB RICHARDS I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be a...
CHRIS PRATT Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.”
“Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say ...
KHALED HOSSEINI It's culture shock for a lot of people when they think that they can just come into any band and jus...
KATIMA UNDERWOOD I've talked to him here and there and he's always been nice to me. It's just a shock something like ...
JILL GROGAN I used to do it myself, but it's not like it used to be. Every year there's something new, and it do...
LOUISE JOHNSON Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings yo...
TERRY WOGAN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There was a real fear that it would be used for something else.
CHARLES GREGORY It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English cultur...
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Not like it used to be. It didn't seem like we were excited -- this whole ballpark just seemed quiet...
GENE STEPHENSON It's not a shock. But I thought it would take longer.
FRED ROTERMUND It had been iffy on and off for the past year. They had said last year that if they could not find a...
JOY WRIGHT We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time...
MARGARET MCMULLAN People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY It's been a cumulative effect. Mother Nature is not able to spread its wings like it used to.
GREG AJEMIAN What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multi...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else; just be yourself.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were somet...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any...
MICHELLE BACHELET India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive cultu...
HANADI FALKI We all knew about the task ahead of us, but we didn't know about the task ahead of us. It was kind o...
COREY MAYS If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.
CHARLAINE HARRIS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE We really cooperate now - it used to not be that way. It used to be, they were the cops. They were g...
LEE MURPHY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Culture shock was worse coming back than it was going to Japan. My mom had to worry again.
CAROLYN LUND We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horrib...
SETH MACFARLANE A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him wh...
LUCY LARCOM She looks like something that would eat its young
DOROTHY PARKER It was a total and complete shock. You don't expect that. Not here its really quiet out here.
FAITH THORNTON It was a huge shock. There were no expectations since [Ms. Richardson] didn't appear to be ill.
HEIDI HERR You would think that it would be hard to miss someone in the road if you were going back to look for...
BROOKE BUETTI If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something n...
JESSAMYN WEST It would be too much of a culture change for them not to. We just want to do what's reasonable.
MARILYN POLLACK A culture that pushes God out of its world cannot expect to feel secure as if God were in it.
JEFFREY BRYANT I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dyi...
MADISON DAVENPORT I thought it would be a good call. I thought they would be released and I thought that they would be...
GRACIA BURNHAM Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
ELI ROTH Normally, activities like that are not something that would be enough to agitate a nest.
VALERIE FELLOWS We thought it was critical to continue our restoration efforts. We really needed to be able to do so...
DAN PACKER It's not a frenzy like it used to be, but it's a good line.
MARY JACKSON I am still in shock. It's something that you dream of doing and its just so fulfilling,
LARRY BOWMAN We are shopping Eric. Obviously, we would much rather have Eric released. But if we can work out a t...
GREG JOHNSON It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that giv...
CRISTELA ALONZO Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice. (Cosimo Piovasco Barone di Rondò)
ITALO CALVINO Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.
SALLY THORNE To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to i...
MATTHEW FOX The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be...
RANDY FALCO To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
JULES RENARD Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge ...
ERIC GILL [Fuqua thinks Microsoft could do something really bold with its cash. He doubts a Disney bid would h...
KNOX FUQUA What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?
ALDOUS HUXLEY Wendell understands it would not be a good idea to change this technological culture, but he's learn...
JAYE MORENCY It's not like it used to be. Teams don't fear us.
ASANTE SAMUEL Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burd...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON There were statistics about how many hot pockets were used in the film and (there was) something lik...
JENNIFER RUBIN Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta c...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS It should not be smoked like a cigarette, and it should not be smoked in a disco. It's just like at ...
ALVIN LEUNG Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay...
CHARLAINE HARRIS There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The...
JAMIE ZEPPA A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gan...
JASON MEWES It was a shock to everybody. When something happens like what happened to my son, what's the point o...
CAROL CAMPBELL If wealth were to be a meal,ideas & boldness would be its most important ingredients.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) With that premium and given their size, its not clear that there would be a plethora of demand to bu...
ED GROSHANS if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger c...
MICHEL FABER Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its...
J. WALTER THOMPSON The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I would give odds that something would pass but it wouldn't shock me if they failed to agree. This i...
BOB STERN It would be a terrible, terrible loss if something were to happen to the newspaper and it got closed...
MARK NEUZIL It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
MATT HAIG Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some s...
WADE DAVIS The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
PAUL VALERY That was a shock. I know Peter very well. He's a knowledgeable man, but to put something like that i...
RICHARD APPELL Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
NATALIE MORALES If it were as negative as it appears on the surface, Microsoft stock would be dropping like a rock, ...
GERARD CASSIDY Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
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MICHAEL BARONE You can buy now, inject and sell forward. That should provide a rapid start to the injection season.
RON BARONE War,
MICHAEL BARONE You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
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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.
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ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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 The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
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...
ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
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...
ERIC HOFFER To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like ...
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