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We aren't developing a psychosis here. If you get scared, you're finished.


Eric Degert

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rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? KERI ARTHUR We play scared. We manage scared. We coach scared.
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JASON HUNTER Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
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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 Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans:...
ERIC BENTLY