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Eric Hoffer Quotes

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Topics

Weak Greater Like Than Reassurance

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Risks Action Chance Long Inaction

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

Education Progress Mind Human Nation

I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me and my personal life.

Aneurin Barnard

Life Me Personal More Out Little

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Work Time School Writing More Write

If food is processed - like canned or frozen - you can reduce the risks of pathogens.

Food Risks You Frozen Like Reduce

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

Comedy Easy Should

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Failure Writing Just Allow Part Any

I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.

Love Age Time Competition Speech

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Freedom Justice Fun Laughter Forget

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

Technology People Think Tools Moral

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Work Someone You Sometimes Honest

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Better Die You Young Want Going

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