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Quotes by Editor
"Time should make enemies and Life should make friends."
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"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference."
9
"I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time."
9
"You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy."
9
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
9
"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."
9
"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
9
"Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up."
9
"John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly."
9
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
9
"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."
9
"This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here."
9
"Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes."
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"Write about society as news and treat it like sociology."
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"Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy."
9
"The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector."
9
"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."
9
"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
9
"Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand."
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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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"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."
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"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms."
8
"Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it."
Fact,
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"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."
8
"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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"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."
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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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