In the piece I just wrote for the National Post
I deplore that the woke now think Seuss should be toast.
“All this has been rather silly, because as someone says, when you have an idea it has to be both feasible and effective.”
Chess coach Dan Heisman in his video “The Maung Lesson” around 17:40.
“If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”
Jordan Peterson on Instagram (all caps in the post) Nov. 18, 2020
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the flap over waxy butter from palm-oil-fed cows should focus on how supply management reliably creates bad products at high prices.
“your mind is on vacation and your mouth is workin’ overtime”
Mose Alison in “Your mind is on vacation” on his 1976 album “Don’t worry about a thing” according to https://genius.com/Mose-allison-your-mind-is-on-vacation-lyrics
“She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.”
An unnamed critic re “Katherine Hepburn in a Broadway performance”, quoted by George F. Will in National Post July 9, 2001 in order to apply the same insult to Holden Caulfield
“Tourists don’t know where they have been, and travellers don’t know where they are going.”
Paul Theroux quoted by James Michael Dorsey in The Christian Science Monitor requoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2013
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Widely attributed to Confucius online, but no site I found offers any further source details