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“Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.”

Source: Healology

“This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.”

Source: Healology

“Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”

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Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Modern society doesn’t have a problem with treating the janitor the same as the CEO. We have a problem with our need to show the world that we treat the janitor the same as the CEO.”

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Author:Cic Mellace

“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”

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Book:The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Source: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

“Why do you take off your clothes in the winter and then cover up in the summer? Baring it all, Grandstanding, Not even one leaf, You naked tree”

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Author:Charmaine J. Forde

“It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.”

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Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“I predict that there will be many more like him in the future,” she sighed. “People of privilege speaking heroically on behalf of those with whom they have no intention of mixing.”

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Book:In the Shadow of Time

Source: In the Shadow of Time

“[H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes.”

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Book:They'd Rather Be Right

Source: They'd Rather Be Right

“Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.”

Grandstanding Political Speech

Book:54-40 or Fight

Source: 54-40 or Fight

“But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.”

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Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your “I” is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary “I.” No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.”

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Author:Ben Chandler

“We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.”

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Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo