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- All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
- There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
- The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel
- The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)
- Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
- The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
- When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
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