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Quotes by Editor
"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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"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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"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven."
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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
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"Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups."
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."
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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
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"Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists."
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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
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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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"Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04."
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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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"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few."
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"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."
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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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"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."
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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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"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
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"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."
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"I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die."
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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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"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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"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
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"Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate."
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"An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time."
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"I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren."
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"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
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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."
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"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."
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"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."
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"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."
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"The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns."
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"Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand."
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"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."
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