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"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
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"Brand-new truths are probably not Truths."
"I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."
"Confusion is still better than conviction in the wrong!!!!"
"I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know."
"Beware of the man who's extraordinary claims end in a sales pitch."
"Round numbers are always false."
"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."
"Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith."
"Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt."
"We are not alone!Everything has been orchestrated.If you think that the meteor that killed of the dinosaurs was natural. Think again!What use would a world of greed be if we had to worry about getting eaten by dinosaurs every minute of the day?It wouldn't be good for the economy, now would it?Think about it!"
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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."
"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
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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."
"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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