Rick Bayan quotes
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“Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.”
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“Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.”
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“Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.”
-- Rick BayanSource : "The Sweep: Vikings, voters and the charge of the Militant Middle" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2010.
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“The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.”
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“Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.”
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“POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.”
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“CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.”
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“True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.”
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“Communism:Â Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty”
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“Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision”
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“We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.”
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