Here’s Upton Sinclair on Scott McLellan’s new memoir:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Apparently McClellan came to understand many things once he was no longer on the White House payroll.
Everyone’s heard the old saw, “Those who can’t do, teach.” Turns out the basic formulation goes back to the sixth century BCE, and is attributed to Anacharsis, a Scythian philosopher. Here’s the original, as reported by Diogenes:
He marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skillful in a thing vie in competition; those [...]
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