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"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."
"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."
"Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel."
"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."
"President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information."
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"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."
"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."
"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."
"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
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