"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."
-Eric Hoffer
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."
-Eric Hoffer
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"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
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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