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Quotations by Subject: Journalism (23 quotes)

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O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
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If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
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Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.: Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.: Ellen DeGeneres, Newsweek, 04-97, regarding Jerry Falwell's comments
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act III, sc. 4
Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news: give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, sc.5
In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934
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