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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.

Cast Aside Any Column About Two Subjects. It Means The Pundit Chickened Out On The Hard Decision About What To Write About That Day.

Never Assume The Obvious Is True.

One Difference Between French Appeasement And American Appeasement Is That France Pays Ransom In Cash And Gets Its Hostages Back While The United States Pays Ransom In Arms And Gets Additional Hostages Taken.

Avoid Overuse Of 'quotation “marks.”'