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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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"The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable character-a life worth dying for.The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly yearns for either death or immortality."
"We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength, with due fear and courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!"
"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."
"I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office."
"To care is our endless sense if duty."
"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"
"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."
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"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody."
"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not."
"Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one."
"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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