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- You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
- It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
- Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Endless money forms the sinews of war.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Philippics
- When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
- John B. Bogart (1848 - 1921)
- Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981), Newsweek, July 2, 1956
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), "Esquire", June 1960
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry V", Act 3 scene 1
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