Bad rumors about the danger of consumer products are getting increasingly commonplace, largely because it's so easy to execute. The Internet is anonymous.


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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like ...
ERIC HOFFER
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing...
ERIC HOFFER