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Quotes by Journalist
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."
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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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"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."
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"Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it."
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"I love color and I love to dress like a woman."
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"I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour."
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"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."
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"So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?"
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"The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research."
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"Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell."
Body,
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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
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"It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man."
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"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
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"That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day."
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"Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect."
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"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."
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"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"
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"Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation."
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"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
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"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."
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"I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges."
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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
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"Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War."
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"I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan."
Vote,
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"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."
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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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"There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought."
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"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills."
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"The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence."
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"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
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"Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter."
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"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
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"You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad."
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"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
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"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded."
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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
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"People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them."
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"My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another."
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"We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote."
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"I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases."
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"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."
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