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Quotes by Editor
"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."
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"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."
42
"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
42
"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."
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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
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"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."
42
"Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time."
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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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"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
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"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
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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."
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"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."
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"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."
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"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns."
40
"Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops."
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"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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"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work."
Work,
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"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
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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."
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"The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship."
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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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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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"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."
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