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Nobody Stands Taller Than Those Willing To Stand Corrected.

To 'know Your Place' Is A Good Idea In Politics. That Is Not To Say 'stay In Your Place' Or 'hang On To Your Place', Because Ambition Or Boredom May Dictate Upward Or Downward Mobility, But A Sense Of Place - A Feel For One's Own Position In The Control Room-is Useful In Gauging What You Should Try To Do.

I Welcome New Words, Or Old Words Used In New Ways, Provided The Result Is More Precision, Added Color Or Greater Expressiveness.

Color And Bite Permeate A Language Designed To Rally Many Men, To Destroy Some, And To Change The Minds Of Others.

I Was Standing Next To A Famed Geo-politician When The First News Of The Argentine Attack [on The Faulkland Islands] Was Received, And Heard Him Muse Incredulously: "an Old-fashioned Naval Battle. A War Between Two Civilized Nations, Perhaps With Even A Declaration Of War, And Later A Peace Conference. Wow." No Hostages, No Nukes, No Ideologies, No Religious Fanaticism; Just A Fair-and-square War Over National Interests - Hard To Believe, In This Day And Age.