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Quotes by Journalist
"The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself."
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"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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"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
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"I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community."
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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
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"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
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"I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali."
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"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."
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"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
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"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
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"The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg."
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"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
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"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
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"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things."
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"Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false."
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"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
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"I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby."
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"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is."
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"Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship."
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"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
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"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."
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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
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"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."
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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
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"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
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"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."
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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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"I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue."
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"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."
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"With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist."
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"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."
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"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice."
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"The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent."
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
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"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants."
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"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."
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"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
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"I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed."
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"It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World."
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
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