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Quotes by Journalist
"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."
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"We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great."
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"One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives."
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"The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this."
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"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
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"Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it."
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"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."
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"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."
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"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
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"I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them."
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"His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married."
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"Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th."
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"I was also in love with the English language."
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"Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image."
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"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."
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"Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds."
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"Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back."
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"It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere."
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"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."
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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
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"Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having."
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"There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being."
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"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."
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"Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that."
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"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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"Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often."
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"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed."
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"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one."
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"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
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"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
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"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."
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"You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
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"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
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"Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns."
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"Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully."
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"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
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"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
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"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
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"Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists."
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"It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?"
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"The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam."
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"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."
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