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Friday, April 25, 2014
Convincing People
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"You may very well be able to domesticate a gibbon by repeatedly whacking it over the head with a hammer, but people respond less kindly to concussion."
You don't beat people up with a philosophy...you introduce them to it gradually...I'm sorry to say you're mired in the shattered cranium school of mentoring.
Take it a little easier in the future and I'm certain you'll have more success"
From Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill
"The sensible move would be to ...construct his homicide case the old-fashioned way;
with forensics, paper trails, and dodgy, self-serving witnesses."
From Bad Monkey by Karl Hiaasen
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