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Quotes by Journalist
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
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"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy."
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"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
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"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
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"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
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"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."
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"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
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"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
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"Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public."
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"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
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"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Will,
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"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it."
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"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
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"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
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"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
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"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
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"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
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"Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004."
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"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."
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"There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority."
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"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."
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"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
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"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
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"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."
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"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency."
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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."
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"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
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"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
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"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
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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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"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience."
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"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."
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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
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"Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way."
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"As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits."
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"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
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"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
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"I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was."
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"According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue."
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"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
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