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Affairs Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
- However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human…
- In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final…
- In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
- To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man…
- In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in…
- The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American.is…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
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- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. — Ambrose Bierce
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus
- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton
- Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot… — Benjamin Franklin