Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
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GOSSIP Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer ... A. J. GOSSIP God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 You, too, are called to be an open letter,... A. J. GOSSIP He hits them a long way. I wish I could, just one time, know how that feels like. He hits them as fa... A. J. PIERZYNSKI The rings are great. We can now put last year behind us and move on. After tomorrow hopefully all th... A. J. PIERZYNSKI It's the hardest by a long shot. You recalibrate yourself. A. J. KITT Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it A. J. MUSTE I didn't take any exception to it. It wasn't a big deal. It's part of it. Whatever. A. J. PIERZYNSKI I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I... A. J. MCLEAN If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider i... J. A. KONRATH Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either t... A. J. P. TAYLOR Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to... A. J. P. TAYLOR A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. A. J. P. TAYLOR Nothing is inevitable until it happens. A. J. P. TAYLOR Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered t... A. J. P. TAYLOR He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik... A. J. P. TAYLOR Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. TAYLOR In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige... A. J. P. TAYLOR