"Legitimacy is the elixir of political power."

-- Fareed Zakaria

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“By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.”
“Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.”
“I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.”
“My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.”
“Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.”
“We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,”

Source : "New NHTSA Administrator Sue Bailey Already in Hot Seat Over Firestone Tire Problems". "Morning News" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2000.
“Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.”

Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
“There is no good side to celebrity.”

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