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In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
William S. Paley
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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Gerald W. Johnson
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There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
Steven Levy
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In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.
Scott Pelley
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Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
David Brinkley
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
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All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Reston
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I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
Burton Rascoe
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Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.
Ernest Hemingway
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
Bob Edwards
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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
Richard Harding Davis
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War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
Philip Caputo
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Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.
Sergei Dovlatov
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There is a law which decrees that two objects may not occupy the same place at the same time — result: two people cannot see things from the same point of view, and the slightest difference in angle changes the thing seen.
Mildred Aldrich
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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
Lincoln Steffens
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There is nothing-
No life,
No joy,
No pain-
There is nothing save opinion,
And opinion be damned.
Stephen Crane
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne
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Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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You can usually tell a quack doctor by his bill.
Al Bernstein
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"Everything up here is crumbling," he said. "Erosion city or something." Basalt lava," Christine said. "Old volcanoes." "Very old volcanoes." "Like fifty million years." "Even older."
David Guterson
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Illinois is perhaps the most American of all the states. It's the U.S.A. in a capsule. Here our virtues and our faults are most exaggerated and magnified. Here somehow the heroes seem more heroic, the villains more villainous, the buffoons more comic. Here violence is more unrestrained, and the capacity for greatness is as limitless as the sweep of unending cornfields.
Clyde Brion Davis
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There are two kinds of teachers in this country: Those who control their class and the unarmed.
Franklin P. Jones
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