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- The administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), News conference, October 3, 1972, speaking about the Nixon Administration
- If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong felling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
- Sir Robert Peel
- Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.
- Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time, 10-22-09
- 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. - Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act III, Scene 1
- Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- I can see the time when every city will have one.
- An American mayor's reaction to the news of the invention of the telephone
- I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news-- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. - Gilbert & Sullivan, "The Pirates of Penzance"
- All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
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