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Quotes by Editor
"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."
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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
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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."
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"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."
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"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
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"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
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"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."
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"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."
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"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
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"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."
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"A good title is the title of a successful book."
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"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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"It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence."
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"He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table."
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"John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly."
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"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."
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"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
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"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."
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"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."
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"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not."
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"If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide."
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"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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"No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through."
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"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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