Eric Hoffer

The World Quotes

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All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

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Animals


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Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
Henry Bergh
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They’re sensitive.

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The World Quotes

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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

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Society Quotes

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You’ve got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
We’re an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

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Future Quotes

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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
I want a new contract. I’m happy at United and I see my future here.
Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.
Martin Frost

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The Future Quotes

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I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

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Teaching


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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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Society Quotes

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won’t accept.

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