"I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance."

Power, Press, Worry

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"I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance."

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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

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"So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

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"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country."

Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader

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"I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it."

Peter Jennings, Canadian Journalist

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"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt."

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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."

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"Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home."

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"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."

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"The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change."

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"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor."

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"The chief cause of problems is solutions."

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"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."

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"I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance."

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