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Wholly Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be…
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in…
- We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that…
- Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly…
- Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
- The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor…
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- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as… — Ernest Hemingway
- Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth… — Saint Augustine
- Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. — Mark Twain
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is… — Eric Hoffer
- No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one… — Ronald Fisher