“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.” YearsGovernmentActionFormPoliticsInterestBusinessBehindsKnownDarknessDoorsInfluenceIndustryCreaturesTwentiesAncientCornersInvisibleExecutivesLegislationBehalfInsidiousClosed DoorsVested InterestsBehind Closed Doors Author:Margaret Case Harriman
“What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?” PeopleWorldBelieveWellsLongMomentsRealityLightFormSecretWonderDarknessAudienceDoorsObjectsMastersSummerTheaterMethodWinterDisappearInvisibleUnconsciousAtomsLong AgoTrapsPullingClosetsMagicianRabbitsTransformingDazzlingApprenticeship Author:Jane Roberts
“Doormen are kind of invisible, people don't know their names. They just say, Thank you, or Good morning. I'd never thought about doormen before. They're a vanishing breed. More electronic doors are being introduced.” PeopleKnowsKindNamesMorningDoorsInvisibleSaying Thank YouVanishing Author:Bob Newhart