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Cover Story: Say What

Metro's most quotable list for 2007

IT'S A MYTH that Trappist monks take a vow of silence upon joining their order. However, they do practice what they call "strict observance," which means they avoid idle chatter and practice contemplative silence whenever possible.

No one in politics will ever be mistaken for a Trappist monk. Even the most thoughtful government and community leaders here in the South Bay, for instance, have been known to let their lips slip with something outrageous. Sometimes it's a funny and clever way to drive home their point, and sometimes it's a verbal disaster of titanic proportions that's likely to dog them for years (hello, Nancy Pyle!). But the true beauty of a quotable quote is in its unexpected humanness—good or bad, it's a moment when the thick veil of savvy but bland PR-speak that hangs over public life is pulled away....

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