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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."


"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."


"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."


"The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role."


"Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to."


"I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America."


"Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice."


"I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things."


"What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news."
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