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  • Old Cary Grant fine. How you?

    - Cary pseudonym of  Archibald Leach Grant
    His response to a journalist's terse cable to his press agent,'How old Cary Grant?' Attributed.

  • The person who knows'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.

    - Diane Silvers Ravitch
      Speech at Reed College commencement. Reported in Time,17 Jun.

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