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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. Eric Hoffer
Become Awareness Must Some Different
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Eric Hoffer
Nature Creativity Randomness Introduce Ability Order
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. Eric Hoffer
Lie Loudest Ourselves
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. Eric Hoffer
Truth Believe Everyday Possession Ourselves Indifferent Only Likely Truths Common
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. Eric Hoffer
Mind Onto Hang Prejudices
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. Eric Hoffer
Spell Out Obvious Call Question Often
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. Eric Hoffer
Faith Cause Lost Considerable Ourselves Substitute Holy Extent
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. Eric Hoffer
Passion Thought Action Society Marks Ability Directly Pass Truly Midwife Vigorous Dispense
A hospital alone shows what war is. Erich Maria Remarque
War Alone Hospital Shows
The greatest thing about siblings is you constantly have someone putting you in check; there's no room to get delusional about yourself. Erin Foster
You Yourself Constantly About Someone Delusional Putting Check Greatest Greatest Thing Get Room Thing Sibling
I have run from a lot of relationships in favor of being alone. And I tend to find men who use their money and status as a dating tool to be unattractive. Erin Foster
Alone Money Men Tool Relationships Favor Run Status Find Unattractive Dating Tend Lot Being Being Alone Use Who
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered. Erin Gruwell
Teacher Believe Our Born Impassioned Students Feel Empowered Calling Advocacy Am Want Bred Teachers
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. Ernest Gaines
Word Every Everything Stripe Spoken Question Star
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. Ernest Gaines
Today Better Yesterday Must Paragraph Write Than Did Page
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. Ernest Gaines
Writing Old Seriously Thought Back New Suppose Wrote Because Years York New York Sent Novel Started
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. Ernst Fischer
Aim Our Minds Press Television Distraction Bosses Taking Thus Mass Demands Mass Media Disaster Concentration Off Antidote Offer Maximum Succeed Radio Media Film Film And Television
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. Ernst Fischer
Man Will Become Machines More More And More Perfect Imperfection Clear Greatness Efficient
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. Evelyn Underhill
God Character Soul Corner My Soul Where Place
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window. F. Sionil Jose
Work Time You Writing Looking Live Out Window Writer He Simply Contemplation Devote Enable Said Often Manner Should Even
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize. F. Sionil Jose
Funny Genius Write Takes Particular Most Readers Realize
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. Fannie Hurst
Wise Man Wise Man Clever Enough Takes Clever Man Turn Cynic
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. Florence King
Memories Composition True Nostalgia Disjointed Ephemeral
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. Florence King
Snake Matters Bite Moral Pointless Merely Bee Sting Order Conventions Social Etiquette
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. Florence King
Life Woman Women Destroys Must Taking Between Wit Witty Prisoners Tragic American Lovers American Life Choose Figure
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. Frances Wright
Time Mind Practice Become Difficult Habits Simplest Principles Been Error Truths Fixed Formed Prejudice Warped Hard Receive
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. Frances Wright
Ethics First Lose Action Else Beneficial Sight Moral Find Morals Something Something Else Wrong True Ideas Principle Real False Than Departure Substitute Now Right Here Basis Associated Consequent
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