Quote by Eric Hoffer
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need publ

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. – Eric Hoffer

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Failure
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. – Eric Hoffer

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Technology
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Other Quotes from
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While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. – Eugene Debs

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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. – Eric Hoffer

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Protest

Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down. – Oscar Romero

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Protest

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I – Muhammad Ali

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Protest

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. – Samuel Smiles

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Wisdom

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. – John Cornyn

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Politics

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston. – Thomas Menino

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Health

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit. – Patti Stanger

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Age