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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19Stop Me If You've Heard This One
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- By JOHN GREENWALD
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- Flexing his rhetorical muscles before the
- Vice-Presidential debate, DAN QUAYLE explained what he called
- the essence of the Republican campaign. "If you give a person
- a fish," he said, "they'll fish for a day. But if you train a
- person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime." Besides misquoting
- the proverb (it's ". . . feed him for a day" and ". . . feed him
- for a lifetime"), Quayle was stealing a page from an unlikely
- book: Democrat Michael Dukakis recited the lines often during
- his 1988 campaign. Not to worry. The saying has been a favorite
- with orators since the ancient Chinese.
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