"The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you."

-- Elizabeth Aston

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“No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.”
“I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.”
“A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.”

Source : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
“Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.”
“All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.”
“You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.
“As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.”
“A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.”

Source : Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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