I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'


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There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE
There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER
Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU
When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER
Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW
One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER
Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER
Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW
Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER
Remembering​ ​is​ ​something​ ​God​ ​asks​ ​us​ ​to​ ​do​ ​over​ �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER
Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER
The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER