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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"In the world we make good as evil and evil as good."
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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
Criticism

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

"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

"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."
Friendship

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

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

"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."
Policy

"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
Problems

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

"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."
Skepticism
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