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Quotes by Editor
"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."
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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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"Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better."
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"When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying."
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"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
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"A good title is the title of a successful book."
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"In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed."
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"TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling."
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"Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon."
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"I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world."
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"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
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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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"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"
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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
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"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."
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"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
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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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"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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"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
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"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
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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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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."
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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
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"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
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"The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement."
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