“ No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself. ”
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
~ J. K. Galbraith
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
