WISE WORDS
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and realistic." President John F Kennedy
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
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"A quick, impromptu speech takes me about three weeks to prepare." Mark Twain
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"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all." Winston Churchill
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"The fewer the words, the better the prayer." Martin Luther, 1483 - 1546
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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." Robert Southey, 1774 - 1843
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"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality." Joseph Conrad, 1857 - 1924
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"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960
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Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension. John Dos Passos, 1896 - 1970
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers." Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Definition of a Stakeholder: Anyone who can bugger up your business!" Anon.
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values" Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982
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"Definition of News: That information which someone is trying to keep secret!" Anon.
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“Treat the media as you would any other watchdog. Stay calm, be friendly, let them sniff your hand but never turn your back.” Anonymous
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