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Quotes by Editor
"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."
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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
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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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"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment."
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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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"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."
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"He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table."
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"You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge."
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"It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it."
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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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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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"Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?"
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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
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"Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table."
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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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"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."
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"Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after."
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"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power."
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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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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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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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"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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"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."
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"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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"Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions."
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"The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment."
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