"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."

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Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

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“I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.
“The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!”

Source : Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.”
“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?”

Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
“That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.”
“Classic was Jimmy Savileâ€™s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savileâ€™s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmyâ€™s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.”
“Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that.”
“I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.”

Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.424, Del Rey

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