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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. KennedyWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin FranklinSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William ShakespeareIt ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain |
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Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please. Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth,—truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous— licentious—abominable—infernal—not that I ever read them—no—I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. |
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I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. |
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