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...your money but your soul . . , Look in my eyes and recognize Whom - Fool! you chose to hire...
Back in the days of the horse & buggy, a man who waved his arms while negotiating turns in the State of Maine wouldn't necessarily have been yanked off to the booby hatch. A freeborn Republican American citizen had a right to act like a danged fool if he wanted to, as long as he didn't damage property. But since it would have been a waste of motion, with no sense to it, nobody did it. Horse knew where he was going anyhow, even if some of the drivers didn...
...Yeeow!" California's Perry Jones reckoned three months ago that Maureen was "one or two years" away from taking the U.S. women's title. Then he gave himself a neat out: "Maybe she'll fool some of us experts." Maureen not only fooled Oracle Jones last week; she had Teach near collapse in a marquee...
...recognize Red China," roared Connally. "Justice Douglas is not Secretary of State. Douglas is not President of the United States. He never will be. I don't agree with Mr. Douglas. I think he ought to stay home instead of roaming all around the world and Asia making fool statements. We're really at war-in a sense-with Red China...
...means being ready to let the world see you as the fool whom God sees, whenever a suitable occasion arises. And it is humiliating to think how much of our unpublished thought process is devoted to doing just the opposite-trying to put ourselves in the right, to mask our ignorances, to explain away our failures, to pretend that the gaffe meant something else. Oh, we laugh at ourselves in private, that costs us nothing. We even amuse our friends, and cultivate a reputation for modesty, by dwelling on the record of our own discomfitures-afterwards, when...