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Quotes by Journalist
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
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"Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school."
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"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."
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"Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape."
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"Journalism, to me, is just another drug " a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm neither a chemist nor an editor; all I do is take the pill or the assignment and see what happens. Now and then I get a bad trip, but experience has made me more careful about what I buy... so if you have a good pill I'm open; I'll try almost anything that hasn't bitten me in the past."
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"Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens."
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"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."
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"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude."
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"February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned."
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"There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it."
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"John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket."
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"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand."
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"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
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"To God, thy country, and thy friend be true."
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"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
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"Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number."
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"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
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"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."
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"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."
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"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
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"Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits."
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"There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity."
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"Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current."
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"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
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"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
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"Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
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"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."
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"Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread."
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
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"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless."
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"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one."
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"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity."
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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
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"The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever."
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"It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening."
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"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
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"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
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"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
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"The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular."
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"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
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"The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things."
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"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."
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"Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt."
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"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."
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"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."
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