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Quotes by Editor
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
58
"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."
28
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
22
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
9
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
9
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
6
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
5
"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions."
5
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
5
"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."
5
"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does."
4
"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."
4
"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."
3
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
3
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
3
"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."
3
"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
3
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
3
"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
3
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
3
"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
2
"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
2
"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
2
"I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time."
2
"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
2
"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."
2
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
2
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