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Wells Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
- When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the…
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
- The well-adjusted make poor prophets.
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen