"Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke...."

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Source : Sphinx Society lecture, Brown University (Brown Daily Herald), April 3, 2003.

Jacob M. Appel

#Audience Quotes #Persons Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.”
“Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.”
“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”
“The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.”

Source : Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons
“Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the majority of Germans throughout the 1930s and World War II; and by the countless countries, communities and individuals who collaborated with the vast constellation of Hitler's monsters in the gruesome murder of well over 60% of European Jewry. Codex OrfÃ©o reminds us that the root of that insanity is continuing in the form of contemporary Holocausts against other species, with equally systematic, atrocious and inexplicable madness.”
“If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?”
“The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.”

Source : John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

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