"It is part of the formidableness of a……" — Eric Hoffer
"It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before…
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Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my…
— J. Chapman
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I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I…
— Roger Federer
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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.
— Kevin Keegan
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At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?
— Kevin Keegan
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
— Steven Brust
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One of the hardest questions I have been asked is How will you manage the army if you are having…
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her…
— John Millington Synge
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
— Sophie Swetchine
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