Quotations
Cohen's aphorism on political alienation that "Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate" has long been quoted on many internet websites and collections of famous quotations, apparently gaining appreciation from waves of public disillusionment towards public officials. He first contributed it to a book by prolific author Paul Dickson, The Official Rules and Explanations, the first edition of which was published in 1979. Dickson's books on rules of human behavior—generally culled from anecdotal generalizations rather than precise research—gave contributors the honorific title of Fellows in The Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Behavior. The Murphy Center, and Dickson's books, were inspired by Murphy's Law.
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“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)