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	“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.” Charles Lamb, 1833 “Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.” Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker “I often wonder what future historians will say about us. One sentence will suffice to describe modern man: he fornicated and he read newspapers.” Albert Camus, French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, 1956

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Out On A Limb?

Ask five economists a question and, it is said, you will receive six different answers. Unsurprisingly, Harry Truman, like every U.S. president, known for the Marshall Plan and for his role in setting up NATO, often had difficulty extracting useful information from his economic advisors. “All my economists say, ‘on the one hand... and on the other hand...’“ Truman once cried. “Someone give me a one-handed economist!”

(Source: Paul Boller, Presidential Anecdotes)

Second Opinion?

One day, the great Chinese philosopher and administrator Shih Teng was consulted by the relatives of a wealthy man who had drowned in the Wei River. His corpse, it seemed, was being held for ransom by the man who had recovered it. “Wait,” Teng advised. “No other family will pay for the body.”

Some time later, the man who had found the corpse grew worried and also consulted Teng. “Wait,” he advised the man, “for where else can they obtain the body?”

Incidentally, the ruler of Teng’s state, growing tired of Teng’s equivocations, later had him executed.

(Source: Will and Ariel Durant, The History of Civilization)

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