In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. - John Kenneth Galbraith, U. S. economist, Guardian (London), July 28, 1989

Donovan stopped and waited until the old man turned

to look at him. . . .

"They should have tried a shaped charge--it would

have directed the blast away from the payload."

Li paused. "You seem to know something about bombs."

"I was in the Marine Corps--in ordnance removal."

"You made bombs?"

"I made them; I took them apart."

"That must have taken a great deal of courage."

"We called it 'controlled insanity.' Some days

required more control, others more insanity."

Li thought for a moment. "Which do you possess more

of now?" -Tim Downs (1954- ) _Plague Maker_ [2006], Chapter 11

"Would you prefer to be thin?"

GKC: "No. My weight gives us a subject with which to start these questions and answer sessions." -'Cleveland Press,' March 3, 1921.

"Could you speak louder please"

GKC: "Good sister, don't worry. You aren't missing a thing." -Chesterton as Seen by His Contemporaries,' by Cyril Clemens.

The historian has a habit of saying of people in the past: “I think they may well be considered worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of their time.” There will never be really good history until the historian says, “I think they were worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of my time. ~GKC: ‘Illustrated London News,’ 15 August, 1925.