#mark

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

#action #directly #dispense #marks #midwife

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#attuned #ears #enhances #evil #fellow

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#expenditures #fact #involves #justified #large-scale

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#common #europe #great #had #labor

Mark Twain cannot be defined. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#defined #mark #mark twain #twain

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charles #first #freedom #had #his

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#crazy #create #debt #develop #done

They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#certain #go #how #love #love you

With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#denmark #fight #fights #fought #give