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Daniel Okrent

"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other."

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"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other."

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Donna Grant

"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."

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Donna Grant

"We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

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Donna Grant

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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Donna Grant

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

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Donna Grant

"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not."

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Donna Grant

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

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Donna Grant

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

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Donna Grant

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

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Daniel Okrent
"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

Being

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Daniel Okrent
"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Criticism

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Daniel Okrent
"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns."

People

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Daniel Okrent
"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."

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Daniel Okrent
"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."

Fact

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Daniel Okrent
"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."

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Daniel Okrent
"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."

Time

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Daniel Okrent
"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."

Distinction

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Daniel Okrent
"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."

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Daniel Okrent
"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."

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