"Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired."

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Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

Roger von Oech

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“You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.”

Source : "An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn". U.S. News & World Report, (p. 72), October 23, 1961.
“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.”
“Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings.”
“I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.”
“History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.”
“Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.”
“The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.”
“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.”

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