“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” (Freud) What do you suppose Sigmund meant by this quote? Is a cigar an identifying feature, as with Groucho? Who are you, and what is it that identifies you? Freed and Freud have a similar sound. Hmm! There has to be some deeper meaning. Here’s another: “A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.” What does Rudyard Kipling mean by that? Hmm! ;-) Jack
FROM J.S. IN MICHIGAN: Sounds like a sexist remark.
FROM M.L. IN ILLINOIS: clearly mr. kipling kept the company of very well-behaved women...or perhaps he played for the other team. p.s. do you listen to n.p.r.? i heard the freud quote in an interview recently.
FROM P.O. IN DETROIT: Good grief --- it's just weird --- they're all just laughing at us cuz we're trying to find a deeper meaning!
FROM GENIE L.: Poor Rudyard, with that comment he was telling us more than he probably wanted to about his feelings for women or their feelings for him. Hope he enjoyed his smoke. (I wonder if his friends called him Rudy?) As for Sigmund, I think it is a reference to the idea that meanings are not always hidden .... sometimes it just "is what it is" .
FROM B.S. NEAR ORLANDO: Hi, I wonder if he had a grudge against women. He certainly never worked with the women who were part of the team in our store, even the one's who stole from us.My brother used to repeat that quote and I can't remember why. Why degrade anyone, even if they are not on grade level with you, especially if they are not on grade level with you. Another reason we wish people were still with us, so we can ask some more questions.
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All the individual statements in your Winning Words today, Pastor Freed, are interesting but the way you are stringing the thoughts together are hilarious and somehow I think, in the recesses of our minds, this all points to the fact that the whole is greater than the sum of the all the parts together.
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