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Jul 10

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“Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.” –Lucius Apuleius

Welcome to our second flight of Priceless Ads. As in the first flight, every Priceless ad in this series delivers a familiar massage. In your priceless comment(s) about the massage that you receive, again and again, please don’t hold back your true feelings. 

“Contempt is a terrible thing to waste.” –Max Im*

*Max Im is the pun name of a pen name with a case of aphorism, which causes one to shoot its mouth off. The rest of the Max Im quotes in this post go without citation, lest familiarity with a pun name breed groans beneath contempt.

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Oct 12

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” –Chief Joseph quote

WORDPLAYA few simple words to live by…

Sep 16

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” –Sophocles quote

Chief JosephIconish is the new lingua franca. Everyone understands it. There is no risk of miscommunication. Now we can all just get along.

 “Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.” –Marilyn vos Savant

“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.” –Edward R. Murrow

“Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.” –Rumi quote