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The Earl of Louisiana (1961)
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.
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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
Frederick Winslow Taylor
A. J. Liebling
Born:
October 18, 1904
Died:
December 28, 1963
(aged 59)
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