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Quotes by Editor
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas."
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"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
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"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
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"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
63
"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
62
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
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"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
60
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
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"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
59
"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
59
"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."
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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
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"The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part."
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"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
56
"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
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"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
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"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
56
"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment."
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"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."
War,
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"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
54
"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
54
"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
54
"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."
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"Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time."
53
"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."
53
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
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"Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to."
53
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
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"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."
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"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."
52
"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."
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"An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time."
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"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at."
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