Griff Rhys Jones (1953) British actor and comedian
Michael Odell, "This much I know: Griff Rhys Jones" http://arts.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1939605,00.html, The Guardian, November 5 2006.<br>Talking about dysfunction
“I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.”
22 May 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)
Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1350) japanese writer
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Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Source: The Man Who Studied Yoga (1956), Ch. 5
Electra to her mother Clytemnestra, Act 1
The Flies (1943)
“The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.”
Hiero, ch. 3, as translated by Richard Graves in The Whole Works of Xenophon (1832) p. 626).
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
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The Law
Context: Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts. Their mistake appears to me to arise principally from this, that in the cities there is no punishment connected with the practice of medicine (and with it alone) except disgrace, and that does not hurt those who are familiar with it. Such persons are like the figures which are introduced in tragedies, for as they have the shape, and dress, and personal appearance of an actor, but are not actors, so also physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Statement to Franz Halder, as quoted in The Psychopathic God (1993) by Robert George Leeson Waite, p. xi
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Jacob M. Appel (1973) American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic
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Alessandra Martines (1963) Italian dancer and actor
On being awarded with L'Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit) from Nicolas Sarkozy, as quoted in Alessandra Martines: Parigi premia il mio talento ma l'Italia spesso mi ignora http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/08_agosto_26/matines_cavaliere_francia_costantini_df494be8-7337-11dd-95d1-00144f02aabc.shtml, Corriere della Sera, (8-26-2008). <br class="br">Variant: I am overjoyed, but I repeat: it is not my country which awards me. In Italy, those who make a name for themselves in other countries are ignored.