I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.


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ERIC HOFFER
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER
I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL
I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT
When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER
Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE
It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS
I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE
If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA
I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW
Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT
First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU
I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW
If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID
You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER
There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER
I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET
At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN