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If you can manipulate words, you can manipulate the world.
ADAM MUTH Words divide us, actions unite us.
TUPAMOROS Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no...
URS FISCHER A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.
In the changed role this number enric...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspir...
INGA MUSCIO It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bo...
LAUREN OLIVER James DEan and Tarzan are words apart.
CASPER VAN DIEN Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple i...
SHANNON HALE Nothing can subtract hard work from success, only add to it.
MANJUNATH HARLAPUR I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It better to SUBTRACT what isn't needed than to ADD what isn't needed.
LORRIN L. LEE Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words
WOODY ALLEN Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
ADOLF HITLER Words build knowledge; observation builds wisdom.
JIM GENOVESE Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
AMIT RAY Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
WOODY ALLEN God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. We are learning to multiply three-digit numbers.
ANGEL GONZALEZ To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
PETER HELLER So far, our numbers look to be about the same as last year, if you subtract the 300 or so kids from ...
TOM SALTER Long words and complex sentences are intended to add importance to something unimportant
JACK MABLEY These words I manipulate to articulate a deliberate measure of emotions and notions across your syna...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add...
RANDY PAUSCH Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
WOODY ALLEN Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
IAN FLEMING Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in t...
WOODY ALLEN Go away. I'm all right.
, LAST WORDS It takes a great deal of effort to either add or subtract a species from listing.
KAREN STEUER O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Add to golden numbers golden numbers.
THOMAS DEKKER The Republicans try to use fancy words and they use wedge issues that split the country apart.
ALLISON DOBSON He thought for a minute and said, 'Now I have eight pitches.' He knew that intuitively. He figured t...
BRUCE HURST To add to golden numbers, golden numbers.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I talk by playing, not by words.
BERNIE WORRELL I love playing with words and texture.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, an...
JAMIE VALENTIN What God does can neither be quantified by numbers nor qualified by words.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL It's a theme the party stands for. Some people will subtract a bullet. Some will add a bullet. We'll...
JOE TURNHAM With Harley, you build it, then you've got to take it apart.
NOAH HATHAWAY It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've...
LEV GROSSMAN Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, go...
PAUL GAUGUIN If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUS Words can build you up and tear you down in within minutes."
SDASS We speak the ebonics of Spanish. The first things we learned were the numbers and cuss words.
ANDREW ROBERTS If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three ...
RANDY PAUSCH Once you have learned how to subtract the gross form of ‘my’, subtract the subtle form of ‘my�...
DADA BHAGWAN That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract ...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue...
PAUL GAUGUIN The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has...
ALIA SHAWKAT Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar
BIBLE How can you build credibility without grandstanding as you strive to stand apart from the crowd?
SUSAN C. YOUNG Words are cheap and will perish with you, unless you build with them.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Words take on many different meanings.
ERIN MCKEAN Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and tr...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or pain...
DEBORAH WILES We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.
MUNIA KHAN The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
ELLEN G. WHITE Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip cod...
FRANK ABAGNALE For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall a...
BIBLE Colors were made to add a variety to the equation, not to divide humanity into segregation...
PHILIP T. M. ...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words ...
H.D. The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic...
JANE ROBERTS Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change wit...
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change wi...
LEON ALBERTI Leaders build bridges; and seek common grounds to unite. Pygmies build walls; and invent excuses to ...
MAMUR MUSTAPHA Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed,...
MICHEL FABER Words are faith vehicles to take you to your promised land.
JOHN DI LEMME Words are faith vehicles to take you to your promise land.
JOHN DI LEMME You will say things with a merry tongue; you are not one for graceless words and no one will take of...
NOELLA MENON I take my cue from deeds, not words.
AESCHYLUS Words, words, words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageab...
PAUL KALANITHI The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCER ...if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on w...
H.D. Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth.
NOETIS One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create ...
HENRI NOUWEN Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide.
FARSHAD ASL Sometimes you take all my words away from me.
AMIE KAUFMAN Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
HAROLD S. GENEEN These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they co...
ATHANASIUS Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of vi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This is my classroom essentially picked up from Wexford and dropped here.
ERIC ROYSTON You can do a lot with this classroom and it really is effective with many different kinds of kids. I...
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ERIC ROYSTON You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
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ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
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 If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL 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...
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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 For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
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ERIC HOFFER Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
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...
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ERIC HOFFER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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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.
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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.
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