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Human 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…
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- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he… — Thomas Paine
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill
- I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,… — Roger Bannister
- So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza
- It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story
- On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New]… — Winston Churchill