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Quotes by Editor
"It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time."
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"I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world."
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"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
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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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"I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting."
Love,
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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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"Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in."
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"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
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"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
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"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."
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"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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"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
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"Journalism is in fact history on the run."
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"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."
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"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity."
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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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"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."
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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 individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
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"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."
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"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."
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"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie."
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"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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"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."
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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
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"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."
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"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."
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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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"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."
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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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