The following are some favorite quotes of others, and their Almost-World counterparts.
The Beatles: All you need is love.
John Dalston: Almost-all you need is like.
The Beatles: Give peace a chance.
John Dalston (if peace doesn't work) : Give almost-war a chance.
Larry Kudlow (The Kudlow Creed): I believe that free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity.
John Dalston: I'm pretty sure that not sounding too socialist or negative is the best way to keep your show on television.
John Dalston (An Almost-Creed): I suspect that almost-free (cheap) in-the-market-area (mostly downtown) selling and leasing is the best way to make money until I can think of a better way.
Someone: Been there, done that.
John Dalston: Almost-been there, saw how that was done. (I watch TV too, you know.)
Kansas: All we are is dust in the wind.
John Dalston: Almost-all we are is dust in the wind.
Kansas: Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and sky.
John Dalston: You've almost got it. Start thinking longer-term.
Shakespeare: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him . . .
John Dalston: Acquaintances, really old people, and country music lovers, lend me your cell-phones (I need your almost-undivided attention); I come to pay homage to a famous dude who got a month named after him, but I will speak not just in a laudatory way . . .
Shakespeare: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
John Dalston: Some are born into a nurturing environment, some just plain work hard to achieve their goals, . . . and a few of us even win the lottery. Just an observation. And I'm not looking forward to a lot of your brand of greatness being thrust upon me, thank you very much.
Shakespeare: Parting is such sweet sorrow.
John Dalston: Almost-parting is to stay and have another beer.
Shakespeare: To be, or not to be: that is the question.
John Dalston: To almost-be as you continue to move forward in life is almost-all that happens really.
Shakespeare: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
John Dalston: Precisely.
Sandy's Theorem: Keep it complicated, stupid.
John Dalston: Keep it almost-complicated.
Sandy's Corollary: If you can't remember it, forget about it.
John Dalston: If you can't remember it exactly, you probably still remember the gist.
Cops: Assume the position.
John Dalston: Assume the almost-position.
An almost-shirt or almost-mug may be available with your almost-favorite saying on it. See the Almost-World almost-store.
