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Derive Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition…
- The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
- The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant…
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- A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. — George Bernard Shaw
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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- Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults… — Leonardo da Vinci
- Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does… — William J. Clinton
- Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of… — Michel de Montaigne