Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.


Saul Alinsky

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SAUL BELLOW
In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, O' the cheating that goes on
SAUL ANTIN
We've been a very competitive mid-major program. We're starting to come together. It's a good group....
SAUL PHILLIPS
It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal...
SAUL BELLOW
He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relation...
SAUL BELLOW
I cannot remember there being as many young kids as today. What draws them is the hardest conservati...
SAUL ANUZIS
If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
SAUL PERLMUTTER
And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...
SAUL BELLOW
Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.
SAUL BELLOW
Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic afflict...
SAUL BELLOW
I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being...
SAUL BELLOW
but that would have been neither fish or fowl.
SAUL LEVINE
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
SAUL WILLIAMS
To have to wait four or five days is unimaginable. It makes you sick. But this is something that is ...
SAUL BERMAN
He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather...
SAUL BELLOW
I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Sin...
SAUL BELLOW
We attend these seminars to prepare ourselves and our crews for the upcoming balloon season, as well...
GREG SAUL
everybody got it -- except Michael Moore.
SAUL ZAENTZ
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW