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Title: Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less), The by John M. Shanahan ISBN: 0-06-019411-1 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.54 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Most of the most intelligent one-liners of all time
Comment: This is a great little book to read when you are looking for illumination by humanity's intellects and wags. Shanahan has done a good job of editing these into topical sections. My only complaint with the book is that the editor decides to include a number of his own thoughts among the "Most Brilliant". Now he is a smart man, to be sure, but it is just a little too prideful to include yourself in such a book. His first self quote appears on the very first page of quotes. What his self inclusion does do, however is illustrate the difference between the truly brialliant thoughts and those that aren't. Shanahan's editorial job is delightful, his self promotion to most brilliant embarassing for him at best.
Rating: 1
Summary: Choose another one
Comment: I purchased this book because I edit a newsletter and needed quotes so I could create cryptograms. I find myself paging and paging through the book, unable to use these obscure, often negative and sexist quotes (was it really necessary to include all those quotes by men voicing their sexist views of women)? The themes are too similar, as well - they all seem to be about human behavior and the human condition while it would be nice to have a wide range of topics, such as the natural world, seasons, holidays, for example. Choose another book of quotes.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book to peruse once a day.
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Summary:
Great book to review each day and contemplate one or two thoughts from some of the world's foremost "thinkers".
The point is to contemplate their thoughts, not to just accept them. Just like reading your daily astrology, some quotes can be so general as to lack basis.
Good reference tool for writers, or leaders who need to quickly and capably convey thoughts, or ideas.
Includes a CD to listen to in the car, etc.
Review:
Shanahan has put together many great one liners into a single volume; about 6 per page.
Contents are logically divided:
Acknowledgments
1.....The Human Condition
2.....Success, Fortune, Failure, and Misfortune
3.....Truth, Lies, and Deception
4.....Talk, Talk, Talk
5.....Passions, Virtues, and Vices
6.....It's Only in Your Mind
7.....Men, Women, and Relationships
8.....Religion, Nature, and God
9.....Life's Passages
10....Human Foibles
11....Pursuits - Artistic and Otherwise
12....History and Government
13....Stuff to Think About
Sources
The "Sources" lists each author alphabetically, with the quote source and quote placement with the page numbers.
Negative:
1.....The CD has no look-up capability, so you can only listen to it linearly, and cannot use it as a search tool.
2.....There is no index, or topical list for searching for quotes using specific words (like searching for "love", "ocean", "heart", etc).
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Title: Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts Funny Sayings: A Stupendous Collection of Quotes, Quips, Epigrams, Witticisms, and Humorous Comments. for Personal by Bob Phillips ISBN: 0842350357 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History's Greatest Wordsmiths by Mardy Grothe ISBN: 0060536993 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Great Quotes from Great Leaders by Peggy Anderson, Michael McKee, Career Press ISBN: 1564142868 Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook ISBN: 0517202166 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Quotable Quotes: Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine by Reader's Digest, Readers Digest ISBN: 0895779250 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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