Quotes
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Eric Hoffer

"Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.”
“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.”
“What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.”
“Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.”

Source : "The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.co.uk. March 24, 2010.
“I canâ€™t make this decision for youâ€¦this oneâ€™s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesnâ€™t help, but itâ€™s all I can do.”
“Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good storyâ€¦ Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both, big-time. So hold on to your hats, folks. Youâ€™re in for quite a ride.”
“There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.”

Source : "Seven Types of Ambiguity". Book by Elliot Perlman, 2003.
“Sometimes it feels like energy or electricity when it is moving in and through us, but spiritual power is really a distinctive kind of knowledge that is like the key that opens the door or the switch that starts the energy moving.”

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