"The poor on the borderline of starvation live……" — Eric Hoffer
"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 free from a sense of futility"
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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 Borderline Quotes
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
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Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and…
— Barbara Oakley
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time…
— William S. Burroughs
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There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create....
— Madonna Ciccone
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You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.'…
— Chael Sonnen
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard…
— Ioan Gruffudd
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To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are…
— Richard Bausch
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I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.
— Matt Kenseth
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Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross…
— Christa Wolf
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I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them,…
— Victoria Moran
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The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes…
— Henry Rollins
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I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.
— Will Smith
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