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That team from Finland, I would guess a lot of those guys grew up playing together and they've been in a lot of international tournaments together.


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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 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 ...
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