Top 58 Paul Hoffman Quotes
#1. You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.
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#2. If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.
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#3. Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.
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#4. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
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#5. In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.
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#6. There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.
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#7. We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
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#8. It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.
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#9. Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.
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#10. No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems
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#11. The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
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#12. That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.
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#13. If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.
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#14. The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.
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#16. The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
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#18. Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.
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#19. Just as the purpose of the liver is to act as a sump for the poisons of the body, the soul has its organs for containing and isolating the toxic discharge of human suffering.
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#20. The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.
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#21. The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.
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#22. The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.
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#23. T was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.
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#24. As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time.
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#26. Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary
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#28. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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#29. Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.
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#30. Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.
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#32. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
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#33. The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.
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#34. And what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?
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#35. Non numerantur sed ponderantur
(They are not counted but weighed)
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#36. Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.
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#37. The mere adding of years to life is not living.
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#38. We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.
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#42. Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
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#43. But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.
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#44. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
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#45. How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.
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#46. Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.
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#47. The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.
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#48. Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes
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#49. However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.
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#50. As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.
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#51. - Why you?
- ( ... ) I'm the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.
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#52. If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.
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#53. At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.
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#54. My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone - never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it.
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#55. Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.
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#56. Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.
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#57. Treat others as you would expect to be treated by them,
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#58. Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.
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