Friday, August 26, 2005

" No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." Bertrand Russell


"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it hardly behooves any of us
to talk about the rest of us." Edward Wallis Hoch





" A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." John Tudor


i write this because of another dumb study , probably funded by us, the tax payer, that says gossip is good because(i'm paraphrasing here) it keeps a society in line!!!


frankly, it smacks of an excuse for repression, a fear mongering totalitarian mentality and "the scarlet letter" part two, at best.

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