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Quotes by Journalist
"And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them."
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"The cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in."
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"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask."
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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
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"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders."
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"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul."
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"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."
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"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."
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"Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it."
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"It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ..."
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"To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense."
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"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
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"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"
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"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
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"Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist."
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"Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on."
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"One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh."
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"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."
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"I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in."
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"As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did."
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"If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides."
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
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"You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist."
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"I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion."
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"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
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"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."
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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
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"There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins."
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"Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect."
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"They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose."
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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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"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
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"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
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"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
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"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
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"They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children."
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"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
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"Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service."
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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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"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
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"The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous."
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"McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base."
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"Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting."
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"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
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