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"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."

"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."

"Kindness is the supreme intelligence."

"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."

"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
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"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."


"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."


"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."


"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."


"The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers."


"Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics."


"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."


"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."


"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
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