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Quotes by Journalist
"Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare."
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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
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"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."
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"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
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"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
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"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
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"I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it."
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"Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self."
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"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."
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"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
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"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
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"A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results."
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"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."
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"Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible."
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"I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that."
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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it."
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"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."
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"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
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"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
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"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."
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"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."
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"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."
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"A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing."
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"Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left."
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
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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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"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
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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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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."
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"I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now."
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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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"It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury."
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"I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots."
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"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
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"Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does."
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"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."
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"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."
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"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."
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