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People want stories about things they can relate to: life and death, good and evil.
Politics is storytelling. We just pick the one we like best.
It says a lot about the US when they ban lawn darts but you can still buy semi-automatic weapons in a department store.-- Brian Manz
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
The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything. Oops. No, that's not what I meant to say.-- Joel Spolsky
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)
A winning formula can be obliterated simply by the change to an ingorant new manager.
Bozone, n: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
Those who do not remember history are doomed to sound silly.-- Carole Ashmore
In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.-- Albert Camus
> Those who will not study history are condemned to repeat it.
And those who do study it, tend to repeat each other.-- Ketil Malde
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."-- Tom Stoppard
"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."-- Steve Witham
They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.-- Terry Pratchett ("Equal Rites")
"For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook."-- Quentin Crisp
A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.-- Lazarus Long
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.-- Abba Eban
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.-- The Anarchist Cookbook
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.-- Tom Stoppard
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.-- Elayne Boosler
Education's purpose is to replace an open mind with a full one.-- David Nestor
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.-- Will Rogers
"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."-- Emil Ludwig
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-- Robert Frost
There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword.-- Benjamin Dana