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Quotes by Journalist
"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that."
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"One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure."
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"Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name."
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"Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral."
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"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."
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"Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both."
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"Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place."
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"I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you."
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"This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook."
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"This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff."
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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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"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"
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"Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life."
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"He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him."
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"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
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"Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half."
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"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."
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"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
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"Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
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"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."
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"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."
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"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
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"When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses."
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"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings."
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"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
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"Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance."
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"If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth."
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"If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem."
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"I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years."
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"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."
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"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures."
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"For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important."
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"Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men."
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"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
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"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."
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"It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things."
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"I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!"
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"When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living."
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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."
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"Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children."
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"It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics."
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"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
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"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."
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"I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority."
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"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
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"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them."
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