Rick Bayan Quotes

• Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

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  Math, Mph, Two

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• POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

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  Running, Sweat, People

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• Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

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  Views, Democracy, Speech

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

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  Unique, Odds, Priorities

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• Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

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  Appreciation, Art, Golf

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• But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

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  Fun, Ambition, Garden

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• REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

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  Opportunity, Waiting, Revolutionary

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• Cínico: idealista al que se le han quitado las gafas de color de rosa, se han partido en dos y se han clavado en el suelo, mejorando inmediatamente su visión.

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  Glasses, Two, Rose

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• CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

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  Childhood, Drug, Shrinking

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• We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

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  World, Apes, Premium

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• Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

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  People, Liberty, Communism

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• The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

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  People, World, Liability

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• Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

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  People, Middle, Perceive

  "The Sweep: Vikings, voters and the charge of the Militant Middle" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2010.

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