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Quotes by Editor
"I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was."
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"To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred."
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"The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement."
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"Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism."
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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."
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"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."
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"What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about."
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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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"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
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"The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible."
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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
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"Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time."
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"I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all."
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"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
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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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"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."
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"A good title is the title of a successful book."
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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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"In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed."
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"The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship."
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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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"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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"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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"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
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"There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed."
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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside."
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"It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on."
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