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“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”

Stories Argument Witty Accomplish Columns Illustration

Book:My Memories of Eighty Years

Source: My Memories of Eighty Years

“Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.”

“The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.”

Source: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy

“in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.”

“The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.”

Character Stories Film Faces Adventure Aim Accomplish Endless Innocent Toys Timeless Trails

Author:Tom Hanks