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There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
Steven Levy
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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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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
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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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All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Reston
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith
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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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Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
David Brinkley
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War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
Philip Caputo
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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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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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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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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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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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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.
Sheri L. Dew
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But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.
Bill Moyers
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You can usually tell a quack doctor by his bill.
Al Bernstein
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Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.
Leo Burnett
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In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.
Charles Dow
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It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.
Irving Kristol
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When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?
Lisa Ling
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
William Manchester
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