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“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
― Eric Hoffer

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
― Eric Hoffer

“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”
― Eric Hoffer

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
― Eric Hoffer

“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”
― eric hoffer

“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”
― Eric Hoffer

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
― Eric Hoffer

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
― Carl Sandburg , The Complete Poems

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love.”
― Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems

“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
― Carl Sandburg

“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.”
― carl sandburg

“Gather the stars if you wish it so
Gather the songs and keep them.
Gather the faces of women.
Gather for keeping years and years.
And then...
Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye.
Let the stars and songs go.
Let the faces and years go.
Loosen your hands and say good-bye.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
― Carl Sandburg

“The past is a bucket of ashes”
― Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers

“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Tell no man anything, for no man listens
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
― Carl Sandburg

“I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.”
― Carl Sandburg

“God, let me remember all good losers.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Revolt and terror pay a price.
Order and law have a cost.”
― Carl Sandburg

“There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.”
― Carl Sandburg

“After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars”
― Carl Sandburg