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"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty."
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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
"You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life."
"If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed."
"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe."
"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."
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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
"But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me."
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"Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice."
"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
"I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate."
"When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people."
"It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it."
"My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way."
"If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story."
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