"Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of……" — Eric Hoffer
"Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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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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More Deliberate Quotes
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one of 332 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
— Arnold Bennett
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They…
— George W. Bush
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been…
— Jimmy Carter
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
— Oswald Chambers
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No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and…
— John B. Jervis
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The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
— Aristotle
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Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
— Sun Tzu
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Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is…
— Sun Tzu
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