Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best pieces farmed out,* he lives in Lisbon's tiny, luxurious Hotel Aviz, also has a palatial home in Paris and another in London. He has no art scouts, does all his purchasing by himself, or on the advice of a few trusted dealers. National Gallery officials would say nothing of Gulbenkian himself last week except that he was "extremely modest" and "a real connoisseur": one of the conditions of the loan was that there must be no personal publicity from the gallery on the subject of Calouste Gulbenkian...
...Bridges, 43, of the Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, Calif.: "Some churches," said Bridges pointedly, "get economically self-sufficient. They don't really feel they need the rest of the world . . . I'm a Republican conservative from Maine, and it's difficult for me to say this: freedom is a dynamic thing . . . Long discussion reveals the anemic spirit of the church, and long discussion seems to keep it anemic...
...trouble is, says Korzybski, that men too often get the steps of this process mixed up. They speak before observing, then react to their own. verbalization as if it were the fact itself. They confuse what is "inside-the-skin" with external reality. They say "the leaf is green," without realizing that the greenness is within them...
...give children the right to have drivers' licenses. Then a boy wearing an Eton-type jacket got up and said: "Sir, if your union does away with corporal punishment, but continues to allow 'lines' [e.g., 100 from Virgil, in a fair round hand], all I can say is that I'd rather have the cane." Copping assured the boy that children should be able to abolish anything they wanted...
...keep his fans interested. He spends most of his spare time writing postcards to disc jockeys, answering fan mail, getting around the country ("You've got to get out and let the people who buy your albums see you"), and dropping into record shops to wow the salesgirls. Says Frankie, who likes to say his success is all a mystery and not a matter of mugging, writhing and hard work: "I can't explain it. Some people say I'm a fluke...