There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. - David Antin

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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

David Antin

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

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I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

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