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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. Barbara Walters
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. Ray Stannard Baker
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Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
american-journalist simplest white
When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
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What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university. Mark Shields
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The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
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I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
american-journalist both trying
George Bush is trying to play it both ways.
american-journalist belong
Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington. Michael Wilbon
american-journalist class expected practical required seems students tested
Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training. Harrison Salisbury
american-journalist knew
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started. Martha Gellhorn
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The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
american-journalist arrange classify ignorance name
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. Ambrose Bierce
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
american-journalist mistaken
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
american-journalist eat edible good man toad wholesome worm
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
american-journalist love
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
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If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not. Ziggy Marley
american-journalist asked court extra four gave left president respond until
The president asked not to have to respond until after he left office. And so the court said no, and gave him an extra four days. Barbara Olson
american-journalist leaves lightning lights loud suddenly
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
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Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.
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As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is. Howard Fineman
american-journalist check confirm dogma extent notion popular sources truth ways
I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.
american-journalist greater happening
My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard. Paula Zahn
american-journalist attractive course reporter
A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.
american-journalist crack poetic slight
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
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For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
american-journalist cast intended vice votes
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore. Pat Buchanan