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Quickly you learn it's way better to have fans talking and caring about you than not.


Eric Stonestreet

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ERIC PARSLOW It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH 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