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Unusual Quotation:The Genius Of Compromise “Zhou Enlai combined utter fluidity with absolute resilience, like water, which espouses instantaneously the shape of whatever container it happens to fill, and never surrenders one atom of its own nature—-in the end, it … Continue reading
How To Change The Subject
How To Change The Subject By Gene Griessman, Ph.D. Terri Gross, host of NPR’s “Fresh Air” offers this advice if you’re being interviewed for a job or if you’re on radio or TV and it’s … Continue reading
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One Way To Get An Honest Answer
One Way To Get An Honest Answer Let’s say you’re thinking about buying a new car and haven’t decided whether to get a Toyota, a Nissan, or a Chevy . So you ask a friend who bought a Nissan if … Continue reading
Unusual Quotations:Unfinished Work
Unfinished Work: “An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” Paul Valery THE Lincoln Quotation Book Don’t get embarrassed using a spurious Lincoln quote. Here’s a quotation book you can trust: The Words Lincoln Lived By … Continue reading
Unusual Quotations:What is the Future?
Unusual Quotations: “The future does not exist. It is created by the combination of a thousand causes, some necessary, some accidental, plus human will. History knocks simultaneously on a thousand gates.” Alexander Herzen THE Lincoln Quotation Book Don’t get embarrassed … Continue reading
Unusual Quotations:Lincoln on Focus
Unusual Quotations ”I will hold McClellan’s horse if he will only bring us success.” Abraham Lincoln to an associate after the President had been treated discourteously by his General-in-Chief THE Lincoln Quotation Book Don’t get embarrassed using a spurious Lincoln quote. Here’s … Continue reading
Unusual Quotations: The Perils of Unshared Wealth
Unusual Quotations “If you are a millionaire and everyone around you is poor, you have no safety” NY taxi driver from Bangladesh THE Lincoln Quotation Book Don’t get embarrassed using a spurious Lincoln quote. Here’s a quotation book you can trust: … Continue reading
Democratic Leaders and Tyrants: The Main Difference
Abraham Lincoln on Democratic Leadership “Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official, not to say arbitrary, in their ideas, and are apter and apter, with each passing day, to forget that they only hold … Continue reading
Thieves in Politics and Business
“Steal a little and you’re a thief. Steal a lot and you’re a chief.” —-Brazilian expression THE Lincoln Quotation Book Don’t get embarrassed using a spurious Lincoln quote. Here’s a quotation book you can trust: The Words Lincoln Lived By … Continue reading
Philip Roth on Donald Trump
A Frightening Truth The famed novelist Philip Roth died in May of this year at the age of 85. Not long before his death Roth wrote an email in which he described his fear of Donald Trump: “What is most … Continue reading →
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