How To Fail: Try Too Hard.

Experts Kill Me. Economic Experts, That Is. Corporations, Foundations, Publications And Governments Pay Them By The Bucketful, And They Fill Buckets With Forecasts That Change More Frequently Than White-collar, Workers Do Shirts. What Lies Ahead Is The Usual Title. What Lies Would Often Be More Appropriate. If Women's Hemlines Changed As Rapidly As An Economist's Forecasts, The Fashion People And The Textile Industry Would Be More Profitable Than Any Other. In Fact, If All The Country's Economists Were Laid End To End, They Still Wouldn't Reach A Conclusion.

Too Many People Overvalue What They Are Not And Undervalue What They Are.

It Is A Damned Sight Easier To Start Wars Than To End Them. This Truth Has Been Stated For As Long And As Often As It Has Been Ignored. High Time And Thank God, We Are At Least Moving Toward De-escalation In Vietnam. The Road To Extrication Will Be Long, Painful, Bitter. But It Must Be Trod. We Are So Bogged Down In Vietnam That We Cannot Respond Effectively Anywhere Else In The World To A Military Power Play Except Through Atomic Bombardment.

. . . The Most Difficult Thing Asked By Our Young Is Not Our Earnings But Our Ears.

Scientists Ofttimes Have The Greatest Faith In A Higher Power. The More They Dig Into, Establish Facts And Figures, The More They Marvel About The Mystery Of It All.