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Quotes by Editor
"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."
3
"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"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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"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."
3
"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other."
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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."
3
"Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions."
3
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
3
"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
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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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"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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"You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?"
3
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
3
"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
3
"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide."
3
"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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"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas."
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"In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall."
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"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."
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"I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence."
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"Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it."
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"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."
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"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."
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"Journalism is in fact history on the run."
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"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."
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"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms."
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