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I grew up on a steady diet of stories from The Reader's Digest. One of my favourite regular columns in that monthly magazine was called 'What they say just because they are they. The column reproduced sayings of people who held important positions in public life.
The significance of the column was not that anything of intrinsic value was said but that they were said by people in positions of authority. And therefore what they said were considered worthy of immortalisation.
That started me thinking. What happens when ordinary people say inconsequential things? Don't they deserve a place in the annals of the insignificant? I believe they do. It is with that hope and belief that I salvaged some of my
public utterances and decided to publish a book. It is my hope that when you shift chaff from the wheat you may also find some things of relevance and consequence. If you do, please let me know, so that I too may be edified.
