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Politics is storytelling. We just pick the one we like best.
The more things change, the more they stay insane.-- Tom Weller
Please storyteller, pull a tale from your pocket,
Spin me a story from your coat-tails so bare,
For my heart has turned cold, and my dreams are too old,
And I need to know the magic's still there-- Heather Alexander (Storyteller)
The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.-- Ellery Queen
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.-- Helen Keller
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"-- Linda Ellerbee
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.-- Helen Keller
Education's purpose is to replace an open mind with a full one.-- David Nestor
Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.-- Orson Welles
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.-- Albert Camus
When I was your age I...wait, I can't tell that story, it's wildly inappropriate. Which, oddly enough, is my point. Don't you want wildly inappropriate stories that you can't tell your children?-- Castle
"Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent."-- Elvis Costello
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.-- Susan Sontag
Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.
Excellence is the trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as "Garfield Gets Spayed", and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: "In Search of Excellence", "Finding Excellence", "Grasping Hold of Excellence", "Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It", etc.-- Dave Barry ("In Search of Excellence")
Those who do not remember history are doomed to sound silly.-- Carole Ashmore
"Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong."-- David Fasold
"It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis."-- Dennis Miller
Answer the phone naked. Callers will hear it in your voice.
The Two Rules of Success: 1. Don't tell everything you know.
Headline: Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
These lovers of esoterica seem to derive a great deal of intellectual satisfaction out of not quite understanding what they are doing.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.-- Abba Eban