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All Quotes Collection
"Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down."
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"I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today."
40
"Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever."
35
"Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches."
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"Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people."
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"Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way."
32
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
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"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about."
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"It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."
58
"I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup."
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"Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style."
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"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."
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"'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet."
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"I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year."
18
"Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology."
32
"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind."
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"Who has words at the right moment?"
15
"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
17
"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
Love,
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"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
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"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
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"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
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"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
25
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
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"I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me."
51
"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties."
47
"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."
17
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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